_(50841628446).jpg) USSQuiros | |
| 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 |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSQuiros |
| 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 | Triple-expansion engine, 500 hp (370 kW), one shaft, bunker capacity 75 tons ofcoal |
| Sail plan | Schooner rig |
| Speed | 12knots (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 | 11knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 57 |
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USSQuiros (PG-40), previously designatedGunboat No. 40, was aUnited States Navygunboat in commission from 1900 to 1904, from 1904 to 1908, and from 1910 to 1923, seeing service in thePhilippines andChina. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in theSpanish Navy from 1896 to 1898 asQuirós, seeing service during thePhilippine Revolution and theSpanish–American War.
Quirós was constructed as aschooner-rigged,compositegunboat for theSpanish Navy by theHong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company inHong Kong. She waslaid down in June 1894,launched in early 1895,[1] andcommissioned into Spanish Navy service in 1896.
Upon commissioning in 1896,Quirós deployed to thePhilippine Islands, where she took part in operations against Filipino insurgents during thePhilippine Revolution.[1] During theSpanish–American War of April–August 1898,United States Army forces captured her atManila. After the war,Spain ceded thePhilippines to theUnited States, and the Spanish Navy considered steaming her from the Philippines toSpain, but decided against it after assessing the voyage as both cost-prohibitive and likely to fail.[1] Spain sold her to the United States on 21 February 1900.
The U.S. Navy commissioned the gunboat atCavite Navy Yard in the Philippines as USSQuiros (Gunboat No. 40) on 14 March 1900. Assigned to duty supporting the U.S. Army in thePhilippine–American War,Quiros operated along the east coast ofLuzon, carrying troops, providing fire support,blockading rebel villages, and makinghydrographic surveys. She then switched to patrolling theUlgan station, operating off the coast ofSamar in cooperation with U.S. Army forces until 6 October 1901. She retired to Cavite for repairs from 25 February to 7 May 1902 and then proceeded toZamboanga patrol station, where she cruised for a number of months, carrying U.S. Army troops andUnited States Marines on various missions. She was reported on 31 December 1903 to have gone aground on thePearl Banks in theSulu Sea offBorneo,[2][3] but was reported on 15 January 1904 to have been refloated with minimal damage.[4] She returned to Cavite and wasdecommissioned on 29 January 1904.
Quiros was recommissioned on 2 September 1904, and following service with the Philippine Squadron sailed forChina, arriving atShanghai on 3 August 1905. Operating along the China coast as far asYantai, she then took up duties on theYangtze Patrol, patrolling theYangtze River, making a number of upriver trips toHankou and one voyage as far asYichang, 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 forAmoy, China, then proceeded to Shanghai, where she again took up duties on the Yangtze Patrol.Quiros remained on Chinese river service for the rest of her career, carrying stores, supplying naval armed guards to rivermerchantmen, inspecting provinces, and protecting U.S. lives and property in China's interior.Quiros wasinterned at Shanghai on 5 May 1917 after the U.S. entry intoWorld War I due to China'sneutrality in the war, but an international agreement on the protection of nationals in China allowed her to resume patrolling in August 1917.
On 17 July 1920, when the U.S. Navy established its modern system ofhull 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. Navydestroyer gunfire off the coast of China on 16 October 1923.
This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.
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