USS Villalobos (PG-42)
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 Spain
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| Name: | SPS Villalobos |
| Namesake: | Ruy López de Villalobos, 16th Century Spanish explorer |
| Builder: | Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong |
| Laid down: | September 1895 |
| Launched: | July 1896 |
| Fate: | Captured by the United States Army during the Spanish–American War |
 United States
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| Name: | USS Villalobos, Gunboat No. 42 (PG-42 from 17 July 1920) |
| Acquired: | 21 February 1900 |
| Commissioned: | 5 March 1900 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 May 1928 |
| Struck: | 4 October 1928 |
| Fate: | Expended in US Naval gunnery exercise off China coast, 9 October 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 270 long tons (274 t) |
| Length: | 156 ft 2 in (47.60 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft: | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 57 |
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USS Villalobos (PG-42) was a steel screw gunboat originally built for the Spanish Navy as the SPS Villalobos but captured by the United States Army in 1898 during the Spanish–American War and commissioned into the United States Navy in 1900. The ship spent almost all of her life as an American gunboat in the Yangtze Patrol on the Yangtze River.
The ship was constructed in Hong Kong for the Spanish Navy. After completion in July 1896 she was based at Cavite, Philippine Islands, at the time of the Spanish–American War and the following Philippine–American War.
Captured by the United States Army along with near-sisters General Alava and Quiros, Villalobos was transferred to the United States Navy on 21 February 1900 and commissioned at Cavite on 5 March 1900 as Villalobos Gunboat, No. 42 under the command of Lieutenant Edward Simpson. The ship was reclassified as Villalobos (PG-42) on 17 July 1920.
Departing Cavite on 13 March, Villalobos patrolled off the coast from Cape Santiago to Point Cueva, Buriad Island, maintaining a communication link with the marines guarding lighthouses at Santiago and Malabrigo and looking for traffic supplying the Philippine insurgents. Before the ship returned to her home port on the 26th, she had destroyed seven bancas (small native boats) with cargo worth $935.00 and also seized a brigantine, a schooner, and a banca which had all been engaged in smuggling.
After a brief rest at Cavite from 26 March to 1 April, Villalobos patrolled the coastline between Niac and Laguimanoc and cooperated with an Army detachment from Taal in seizing three bancas in the barrio of Hanahana and 11 at the barrio of San Luiz, towing them to Taal for not having licenses. The gunboat also seized a sloop and a banca with two Americans on board and arrested them for cruising without proper identification and papers. Her third patrol from Cavite, commencing on 14 April, saw the ship transporting stores to the guards at Cape Santiago, Cape Malabrigo, and Cabra Island lighthouses before resuming routine communication duties with Army detachments at Batangas, Lucena, and Laguimanoc.
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