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DUBUQUE patrol gunboats (1905)


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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, t1237
Length, m

53.0 wl 61.1 oa

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

4.07

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

1250

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, tcoal 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



Standard scale images


<i>Dubuque</i> 1914
Dubuque 1914


Graphics


<i>Paducah</i>
Paducah


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.