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Tacloban

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG21	Asheville		Charleston N Yd	6/1917	4.7.1918	7.1920	sunk 3.3.1942
PG22	Tulsa, 12.1944- Tacloban		Charleston N Yd	12.1919	25.8.1922	12.1923	stricken 4.1946

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1575
Displacement full, t	1760
Length, m	68.6 wl 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	12.6
Draught, m	3.40
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 set Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	850
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 420
Endurance, nm(kts)	2000
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX
Military load	60 passengers
Complement	159

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Project history

These were the last conventional gunboats built for the US Navy, the later Erie and Charleston were conceived partly as small cruisers. They were modified  Sacramentos, the major changes being quarters for about 60 more enlisted men and 4 rather than two boilers. The lines followed those of the earlier ship, but a 4.6m section was added amidships.

Modernizations

1942, both: + 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20

1.1946, PG22: 3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 12, 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20

Naval service

Asheville 3.3.1942 was sunk S off Java by Japanese destroyers Arashi and Nowaki.