USS Villalobos
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | 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 | |
| Name | USS Villalobos, Gunboat No. 42 (PG-42 from 17 July 1920) |
| Acquired | 21 February 1900 |
| Commissioned | 5 March 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 29 May 1928 |
| Stricken | 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 |
| Armament |
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USS Villalobos (PG-42) was a steel screw gunboat originally built for the Spanish Navy as 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.