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PANAY river gunboats (1928)


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Panay 1928

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
PR5 Panay   Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China 1927 10.11.1927 9.1928 sunk 12.12.1937
PR6 Oahu   Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China 12/1926 26.11.1927 10.1928 scuttled 6.5.1942


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

450
Displacement full, t474
Length, m

54.9 wl 58.2 oa
Breadth, m

8.56
Draught, m

1.60
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.

2250
Max speed, kts

15
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 3.5.6
Complement

70


Standard scale images


<i>Panay</i> 1928
Panay 1928


Graphics


<i>Panay</i> 1928
Panay 1928


Project history

Under the FY1925 program the USA built 6 river gunboats for service on Yangtze river in China for protection of American interests.

Modernizations

1941, Oahu: + 8 x 1 - 7.6/90.

Naval service

Panay was sunk by Japanese aircraft 12.12.1937. Oahu 6.5.1942 was scuttled at Corregidor to avoid capture.