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PG-43 Guam
Wake (PR 3)

Wake served the Navies of the United States, Imperial Japan, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China.
Shallow-draft River Gunboat: Laid down by the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China; Launched, 28 May 1927; Commissioned USS Guam (PG-43), 28 December 1927; Reclassified as a River Gunboat PR-3, 15 June 1928; Renamed Wake in January 1941; Surrendered to Japanese forces at Shanghai, 8 December
1941; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 March 1942; Renamed HIJNS Tatara by Japan; Recovered by U.S. forces in August 1945; Transferred to Nationalist China 1946 and renamed RCS Tai Yuan; Captured by Communist Chinese forces in 1949. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 350 t; Length 159' 5"; Beam
27' 1"; Draft 5' 3"(mean); Speed 14.5 kts; Complement 59; Armament two
3" gun mounts, eight .30 cal. Lewis machine guns; Propulsion two 950hp triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.
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