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Wake

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG43, 6.1928- PR3	Guam, 1.1941- Wake		Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China	1926	28.5.1927	12.1927	captured by Japan 8.12.1941 (多々良 [Tatara]), returned 8.1945, to China 1946 (太原 [Tai Yuan])
PG44, 6.1928- PR4	Tutuila		Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China	10.1926	14.6.1927	3.1928	to China 2.1942 (梅原 [Mei Yuan])

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	370
Displacement full, t	395
Length, m	45.7 wl 48.6 oa
Breadth, m	8.25
Draught, m	1.55 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	1950
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 3.5.6, 8 x 1 - 7.6/90
Complement	70

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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, both: + 8 x 1 - 7.6/90.

1.1946, PG43: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 6, 16 x 1 - 7.6/90

Naval service

Wake 7.12.1941 was captured in Shanghai by Japanese and commissioned by IJN as Tatara. In 1945 she was returned to the USA. Tutuila 16.2.1942 was transferred to China and renamed Mei Yuan.