USS Panay (1899)
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| Name: | USS Panay |
| Builder: | Cavite Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 1884 |
| Acquired: | by purchase, 1899 |
| Commissioned: | 3 June 1899 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 August 1902 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 January 1907 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 October 1907 |
| Struck: | 19 June 1914 |
| Fate: | Sold, 15 April 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 162 long tons (165 t) |
| Length: | 94 ft 10 in (28.91 m) |
| Beam: | 18 ft 2 in (5.54 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 27 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 6-pounder gun • 2 × 1-pounder guns |
USS Panay was laid down for the Spanish Navy in 1884 by Cavite Navy Yard; completed in 1885; purchased by the U.S. Army upon American occupation of the Philippines; and transferred to the United States Navy in 1899. She commissioned 3 June 1899, Ens. Harris Laning in command.
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Service history
Philippine–American War, 1899–1902
Throughout the Philippine–American War, Panay served on blockade and patrol duty, intercepting contraband and aiding the Army on Mindanao, Leyte, Cebu, Samar, and Negros. The ship was decommissioned at Cavite on 7 August 1902.
Patrol boat and yard craft, 1907–1914
Panay was repaired and recommissioned on 12 January 1907, Midshipman (Ens. from 2 February 1907) Chester W. Nimitz in command. Assigned to patrol Mindanao, Nimitz, who was to be Commander-in-Chief Pacific in World War II as a Fleet Admiral, took Panay, his first command, into many of the small ports to show the flag. He also commanded the naval station at Polloc. Returning to Cavite in July, Nimitz and his men were assigned to recommission Decatur, and Panay went into reserve, decommissioning on 5 October 1907.
Panay served as a yard craft at Olongapo and Cavite and as a ferryboat between Cavite and Manila in the years that followed, even after she was struck from the Navy List on 19 June 1914. She was sold on 15 April 1920.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
