USS Pampanga (PG-39)
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 Spain
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| Name: | Pampanga |
| Builder: | Manila Slip Company, Cavite, Philippines |
| Laid down: | March 1887 |
| Launched: | February 1888 |
| Fate: | Captured by US Army, Manila Bay, June 1898 |
 United States
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| Name: | USS Pampanga |
| Acquired: | by capture, June 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 9 November 1899 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 June 1902 |
| Recommissioned: | 30 January 1904 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 April 1907 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 April 1911 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 May 1915 |
| Recommissioned: | 3 January 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 November 1928 |
| Fate: | Sunk by US Navy, 21 November 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 243 long tons (247 t) |
| Length: | 121 ft (37 m) |
| Beam: | 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m) |
| Draft: | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 30 officers and enlisted |
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USS Pampanga (PG-39) was a schooner-rigged iron gunboat in the United States Navy during the Philippine-American War. She retained her Spanish name.
Pampanga was laid down for the Spanish Navy by the Manila Slip Company, Cavite, Philippines, in March 1887; launched in February 1888; captured by the US Army at Manila Bay in June 1898; commissioned in American service on 18 June 1899; and turned over to the US Navy at Cavite Navy Yard on 9 November 1899, with Lieutenant F. R. Payne in command. Pampanga had two sister-ships which also served in the US Navy, USS Samar (PG-41) and USS Paragua.
Assigned to patrol duty in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Pampanga operated in support of the Army engaged in fighting the Philippine-American War, carrying troops and supplies, providing shore bombardment to forces ashore, and blockaded rebel towns. Moving on to the Cebu station in mid-1900, the gunboat continued cooperating with the Army there into 1901 and then switched to patrolling off Samar. She returned to Cavite to decommission on 18 June 1902 and recommissioned on 30 January 1904, continuing duty on the Philippine Station, basing out of Cavite until 1906. The warship then cruised the waters off Zamboanga and Borneo until returning to Cavite to decommission on 30 April 1907.
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