USS Quiros
USS Quiros
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History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Quirós |
Namesake | Pedro Fernández de Quirós (1565–1614) |
Builder | Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong |
Laid down | June 1894 |
Launched | 1895 |
Commissioned | 1896 |
Fate |
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United States | |
Name | USS Quiros |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | 21 February 1900 |
Commissioned | 14 March 1900 |
Decommissioned | 29 January 1904 |
Recommissioned | 2 September 1904 |
Decommissioned | 11 March 1908 |
Recommissioned | 11 October 1910 |
Out of service | Interned 5 May 1917 |
In service | Released August 1917 |
Decommissioned | 10 August 1923 |
Fate | Sunk as target 16 October 1923 |
General characteristics (in Spanish Navy) | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 347 long tons (353 t) |
Length | 44.3 m (145 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | kW), one shaft, bunker capacity 75 tons of coal |
Sail plan | Schooner rig |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 3,800 nautical miles (7,000 km; 4,400 mi) |
Complement | 37 |
Armament | |
General characteristics (in United States Navy) | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 350 long tons (356 t) |
Length | 145 ft (44 m) |
Beam | 22 ft 9 in (6.93 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 57 |
Armament |
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USS Quiros (PG-40), previously designated Gunboat No. 40, was a United States Navy gunboat in commission from 1900 to 1904, from 1904 to 1908, and from 1910 to 1923, seeing service in the Philippines and China. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in the Spanish Navy from 1896 to 1898 as Quirós, seeing service during the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish–American War.
Construction and commissioning
Quirós was constructed as a
into Spanish Navy service in 1896.Service history
Upon commissioning in 1896, Quirós deployed to the
The U.S. Navy commissioned the gunboat at
Quiros was recommissioned on 2 September 1904, and following service with the Philippine Squadron sailed for
, 900 miles (1,400 km) inland, in May 1907. On 27 February 1908, she departed China for Cavite, arriving there on 8 March 1908 and decommissioning there on 11 March 1908.Quiros recommissioned on 11 October 1910 and operated on patrol in Philippine waters for the next year. She departed the Philippines on 11 November 1911 bound for
On 17 July 1920, when the U.S. Navy established its modern system of hull classification symbols, Quiros received the hull number "PG-40." She was decommissioned at Shanghai on 10 August 1923 and was used as a target until sunk by U.S. Navy destroyer gunfire off the coast of China on 16 October 1923.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Mitiucko, Nick, "Spanish 1st Class Gunboats (The CORTEZ Class & The QUIROS Class)", spanamwar.com, Retrieved 8 March 2019
- ^ Anonymous, "Gunboat Is Grounded Off Borneo Coast: Quiros Strikes a Reef in Asiatic Waters," Los Angeles Herald, January 1, 1904, p. 14.
- ^ Anonymous, Army and Navy Journal, January 9, 1904, p. 489.
- ^ Anonymous, "U.S. Gunboat Quiros Is Successfully Floated: Little Damage Results From Accident in Borneo," Los Angeles Herald, January 16, 1904, p. 5.
Bibliography
- Zolandez, Thomas (2016). "Question 8/52: Ex-Spanish Gunboats Sunk as Targets off China". Warship International. LIII (1): 26–27. ISSN 0043-0374.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.