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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, t395
Length, m

45.7 wl 48.6 oa

Breadth, m

8.25

Draught, m

1.55 mean

No of shafts2
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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<i>Wake</i>
Wake


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.