USS Pampanga
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USS Pampanga (PG-39) was a schooner-rigged iron gunboat in the United States Navy during the Philippine–American War. She retained her Spanish name.
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History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Pampanga |
Builder | Manila Ship Company, Cavite, Philippines |
Laid down | March 1887 |
Launched | February 1888 |
Fate | Captured by US Army, Manila Bay, June 1898 |
United States | |
Name | USS Pampanga |
Acquired | by capture, June 1898 |
Commissioned | 9 November 1899 |
Decommissioned | 18 June 1902 |
Recommissioned | 30 January 1904 |
Decommissioned | 30 April 1907 |
Recommissioned | 12 April 1911 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1915 |
Recommissioned | 3 January 1916 |
Decommissioned | 6 November 1928 |
Fate | Sunk by US Navy, 21 November 1928 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 243 long tons (247 t) |
Length | 121 ft (37 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and enlisted |
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Pampanga was laid down for the Spanish Navy by the Manila Ship Company, Cavite, Philippines, in March 1887; launched in February 1888; captured by the US Army at Manila Bay in June 1898; commissioned in American service on 18 June 1899; and turned over to the US Navy at Cavite Navy Yard on 9 November 1899. Pampanga had two sister-ships which also served in the US Navy, USS Samar (PG-41) and USS Paragua.