Spanish gunboat Callao
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| Name: | Callao |
| Namesake: | Callao, a seaport city in Peru |
| Builder: | Manila Ship Company, Cavite, Philippines |
| Launched: | 1888 |
| Completed: | 1888 |
| Commissioned: | 1888 |
| Fate: | Captured by U.S. Navy 12 May 1898 |
| Notes: | Served in U.S. Navy as USS Callao 1898–1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Samar-class |
| Type: | gunboat |
| Displacement: | 208 tons |
| Length: | 119 ft 0 in (36.27 m) |
| Beam: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Installed power: | 250 hp |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft, 2 boilers |
| Speed: | 9.7 knots |
| Complement: | 35 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: |
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| Armor: | none |
| Notes: | Coal 32 tons |
Callao was a Samar-class gunboat of the Spanish Navy which served in the Spanish fleet from 1888 to 1898 and fought in the Spanish–American War.
Callao was captured by the U.S. Navy in 1898 and commissioned into U.S. service. For her characteristics and career in U.S. service, see USS Callao (YFB-11).
Callao was built at Cavite, the Philippines, by the Manila Ship Company, intended for colonial duty in the Philippines. She was both launched and completed in 1888. She had two masts and a steel hull, and was unarmored.
Callao spent her Spanish Navy career on colonial duties in the Philippine Islands. When the Spanish–American War began in April 1898, she was at sea on a cruise around the island of Luzon. Her crew was unaware that war had been declared or that the Spanish Navy squadron of Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasaron had been destroyed by the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay eleven days earlier when, on 12 May 1898, Callao steamed into Manila Bay en route the harbor.
When Dewey's ships sighted the inbound gunboat, cruiser USS Raleigh got underway to investigate. When it became apparent that Callao was a Spanish ship, Raleigh, cruiser USS Baltimore, and protected cruiser USS Olympia opened fire on her.
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