Dubuque 1914
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| PG17 | Dubuque | 193 | Gas Engine & Power, Morris Heights | 9.1903 | 15.8.1904 | 6.1905 | Naval Militia TS 7.1911, gunboat 8.1914, TS 7.1915, miscellaneous auxiliary AG6 (IX9) 5.1919, Naval Reserve TS 5.1922, gunboat 11.1940, stricken 9.1945 |
| PG18 | Paducah | 194 | Gas Engine & Power, Morris Heights | 9.1903 | 11.10.1904 | 9.1905 | miscellaneous auxiliary AG7 (IX23) 5.1919, gunboat 11.1940, stricken 9.1945 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1084 |
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Displacement full, t |
1237 |
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Length, m |
53.0 wl 61.1 oa |
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Breadth, m |
10.7 |
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Draught, m |
4.07 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
1250 |
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Max speed, kts |
13 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 200 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
6 x 1 - 102/50 Mk VII, 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I |
| Complement |
184 - 198 |
Project history: Authorized under the Act of 1.7.1902, these vessels were two-funnelled, two-masted, composite-built, with a bowsprit, rated as sloops in British lists. The 102mm guns were mounted to port and starboard on the upper deck.
Modernizations: 1918, Paducah: - 2 x 1 - 102/50, 2 x 1 - 37/40
1921, Dubuque: - 4 x 1 - 57/50, 2 x 1 - 37/40; + 1 x 1 - 76/23 Mk IX/XIV
1940, both were armed with 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 7, 1 x 1 - 76/52 Mk 10
Naval service: Both served on the Great Lakes with a reduced armament from 1922 to 1940-1941, training Naval Reservists, and during the Second World War they were employed training armed guards for merchant ships, and were numbered respectively IX-9 and 1X-23.
Paducah
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