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Archive Photo
80-G-1034878. Computer enhanced
by author.
| Tonnage | 1270 tons standard displacement |
| Dimensions | 241'2" by 41'3" by 9'11" 73.51m by 12.57m by 3.02m |
| Maximum speed | 12 knots |
| Complement | 162 60 passengers |
| Armament | 3 4"/50 guns 4 3"/50 AA guns 9 machine guns |
| Machinery |
1-shaft Parsons geared turbine
(800 shp) 3 Thornycroft boilers |
| Bunkerage |
420 tons coal |
| Range |
2000 nautical miles |
The Ashevilles were completed in 1920-23 for the U.S. Navy’s Yangtze River Patrol. Originally designed to burn coal, they were almost immediately modified to burn fuel oil. They were overhauled in 1930 but remained elderly.
| Asheville | Cavite
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Sunk by gunfire 1942-3-3 south
of Java |
| Tulsa | Cavite |
References
Gogin (2010; accessed 2012-12-3)
NavSource.org
(accessed 2007-4-27)
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