USS Villalobos (PG-42)

USS Villalobos (PG-42)

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.

Read more about USS Villalobos (PG-42):  Spanish Navy Service, United States Navy Service, Philippines 1900-1902, Yangtze River Patrol 1903-1928, The Sand Pebbles