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PALOS river gunboats (1914)

Monocacy 1914

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
PG16, 6.1928- PR1 Palos   Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo // Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China 4/1913 23.4.1914 6/1914 stricken 5.1937
PG20, 6.1928- PR2 Monocacy   Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo // Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China 4/1913 27.4.1914 6.1914 stricken 1.1939

 

Displacement normal, t

190

Displacement full, t

204

Length, m

48.8

Breadth, m

7.50

Draught, m

0.70

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

800

Max speed, kts

13.3

Fuel, t

coal 34
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 6 x 1 - 7.6/90

Complement

47

Project history: The small gunboats intended for coastal service.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Palos 1924

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