USS Callao (YFB-11)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Callao |
| Namesake: | Callao, a seaport city in Peru (Spanish Navy name retained) |
| Builder: | Manila Ship Company, Cavite, Philippines |
| Launched: | 1888 |
| Completed: | 1888 |
| Acquired: | Captured from Spain 12 May 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 17 July 1898 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 13 September 1923 |
| Notes: | Served in Spanish Navy as gunboat Callao 1888–1898 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Samar-class |
| Type: | gunboat |
| Displacement: | 243 long tons (247 t) |
| Length: | 119 ft (36 m) |
| Beam: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Installed power: | 250 hp (190 kW) |
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| Speed: | 9.7 kn (11.2 mph; 18.0 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 32 long tons (33 t) coal |
| Armament: | 4 × 3-pounder guns, 2 × 1-pounder guns |
| Armor: | None |
Callao was a gunboat of the United States Navy which fought in the Spanish–American War and served in the U.S. fleet from 1898–1923.
Prior to her U.S. service, Callao was a gunboat in the Spanish Navy. For her characteristics and career in Spanish service, see Spanish gunboat Callao.
Callao was built at Cavite, the Philippines by the Manila Ship Company, intended for Spanish colonial duty in the Philippines. She was both launched and completed in 1888. She had two masts and a steel hull, and was unarmored.
Her Spanish crew unaware that the Spanish–American War had broken out, Callao was steaming toward port in Manila Bay on 12 May 1898 when she was taken completely by surprise by the presence and hostile actions of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey and was captured by the protected cruiser Raleigh. Callao immediately was put into American service with Lieutenant B. Tappan in command, and was commissioned officially into the U.S. Navy on 17 July 1898 as gunboat USS Callao, with Lieutenant Tappan remaining in command.
Callao served through the remainder of the Spanish War as tender to Commodore Dewey's flagship—the protected cruiser Olympia—as part of Dewey's squadron. She took part in the 13 August 1898 attack on Manila, serving on the left flank of Army forces, who credited her for very effective gunfire support to the troops ashore.
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