USS Tulsa (PG-22)

USS Tulsa
History
United States
Name:	Tulsa
Namesake:	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Builder:	Charleston Navy Yard
Laid down:	9 December 1919
Launched:	25 August 1922
Sponsored by:	Miss Dorothy V. McBirney
Commissioned:	3 December 1923
Decommissioned:	6 March 1946
Struck:	17 April 1946
Fate:	scrapped 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	Asheville (PG-21)-class gunboat
Displacement:	1,207 long tons (1,226 t) {standard} 1,760 long tons (1,790 t) (full load)
Length:	241 ft 2 in (73.51 m)
Beam:	41 ft 3 in (12.57 m)
Draft:	12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Propulsion:	1-shaft coal-fired geared turbine
Speed:	12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Complement:	159
Sensors and processing systems:	GB Type 128 ASDIC added during 1942 refit at Sydney
Armament:	3 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 cal gun mounts 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns 4 × .30 Lewis mg
Notes:	Carries 2 portable 75mm landing/infantry guns

USS Tulsa (PG-22), nicknamed the Galloping Ghost of the South China Coast, was an Asheville-class gunboat of the United States Navy that was in commission from 1923 to 1946. She was named after the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the county seat of Tulsa County.

Tulsa was laid down on 9 December 1919 at the Charleston Navy Yard; launched on 25 August 1922; sponsored by Miss Dorothy V. McBirney; and commissioned there on 3 December 1923, Lieutenant Commander Robert M. Doyle, Jr., in temporary command. Lt. Cdr. Doyle assumed his regular duties as executive officer on 14 December 1923 when Commander MacGillivray Milne assumed command.

Tulsa left Charleston Navy Yard on 19 January 1924, bound for the Caribbean to join the Special Service Squadron. She called at Key West, Florida, on 22 January, before proceeding to Baytown, Texas, where she took on fuel four days later.

The ship spent the next five years on station in Central American waters, "showing the flag" and calling at such places as Tuxpan and Vera Cruz, Mexico; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and at ports in Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. In between cruises with the Special Service Squadron, she returned to Boston, Massachusetts, for yard repair work.

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