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Paducah

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1084
Displacement full, t	1237
Length, m	53.0 wl 61.1 oa
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	4.07
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	1250
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 200
Endurance, nm(kts)
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

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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.