USS Wake
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Wake |
| Namesake | Wake Island |
| Builder | Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai |
| Launched | 28 May 1927 |
| Commissioned | 28 December 1927, as Guam (PG-43) |
| Renamed | Wake, 23 January 1941 |
| Reclassified | PR-3 (River Gunboat), 15 June 1928 |
| Stricken | 25 March 1942 |
| Fate | Captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy, 8 December 1941 |
| Japan | |
| Name | Tatara (多多良) |
| Acquired | by capture, 8 December 1941 |
| Stricken | 30 September 1945 |
| Fate |
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| Republic of China | |
| Name | RCS Tai Yuan (太原) |
| Acquired | 1946 |
| Fate | Captured by Communist Chinese forces, 1949 |
| People's Republic of China | |
| Acquired | 1949 |
| Fate | Active until the 1960s |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 350 long tons (356 t) |
| Length | 159 ft 5 in (48.59 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 1 in (8.26 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) |
| Installed power | 1,900 ihp (1,400 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 14.5 kn (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h) |
| Complement | 59 |
| Armament | 2 × 3in guns (2x1) 8 × .30-06 Lewis machine guns (8x1)1942: US 3" guns replaced with 3" AA guns. Jan 1945 several Type 93 13.2 mm (0.52 in) M.G.s installed |
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USS Wake (PR-3) was a United States Navy river gunboat operating on the Yangtze River. Originally commissioned as the gunboat Guam (PG-43), she was redesignated river patrol vessel PR-3 in 1928, and renamed Wake 23 January 1941. She was captured by Japan on 8 December 1941 and renamed Tatara. After her recapture in 1945, she was transferred to Chinese nationalists, who renamed her Tai Yuan. Communist forces captured her in 1949. On 1 May 1949 Tai Yuan was sunk by Nationalist aircraft in the Caishiji River.