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PG-47 / PR-7 Luzon


Wake served the Navies of the United States and Imperial Japan.

Shallow-draft River Gunboat: Laid down 20 November 1926 by Kiangnan Docking and Engineering Works, Shanghai China; Launched 12 September 1927; Commissioned USS Luzon (PG-47), 1 June 1928; Reclassified as a River Gunboat, PR-7, 15 June 1928; Scuttled in Manila Bay to prevent capture 6 May 1942; Struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1942; Salvaged by Japan and renamed IJNS Karatsu; Sunk 3 March 1944 by USS Narwhal (SS-167).

Specifications: Displacement 500 t; Length 210' 9"; Beam 31'; Draft 6' (mean); Speed 16 kts; Complement 80; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts, ten .30-cal Lewis Machine Guns; Propulsion two 950hp triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.


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Luzon 38k U.S. Naval Institute photo
Dudley Knox Library
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Ca.,
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Exhibit
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Reunions Magazine
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Yangtze River Patrol Memorial
The Yangtze Patrol
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