Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945

PR-5 USS Panay

• Patrol Craft (River Gunboat):
• Displacement: 450 tons (normal)
• Length: 191'1"
• Beam: 28'1"
• Draft: 5'3"
• Speed: 15 knots
• Armament: 2x1 3"/50, 10x1 .30-cal AA
• Complement: 65
• Reciprocating engines, twin screws, 2,250 hp
• Built at Kiangnan Dockyard & Engineering Works, Shanghai, China, and commissioned 10 September 1928

Served on Yangze River patrol, with Asheville (PG-21) and Tulsa (PG-22), from 1920 to 12 Dec 1937, when she was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sunk above Nanking.

Additional Links:

• "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" -- USS Panay
• The Sinking of Panay, 12 December 1937
• Navy Dept. Radio Bulletin: Lt. Cmdr. Hughes' Account of the Sinking
• Findings of the Court of Inquiry on the bombing and sinking of the USS Panay
• Casualty Reports related to the sinking
• "Two Japans: Japanese Expressions of Sympathy and Regret in the Wake of the Panay Incident, by Trevor K. Plante [in Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Sinking in the Yangtze

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