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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Asiatic Fleet was based from China, and the image of the "China Sailor" developed, as many U.S. Navy members remained at postings in China for 10–12 years, then retired and continued to live there.
1850s–1890s, U.S. Navy sailor, with personal sidearms and a black, fatigue uniform. This was standard issue for China sailors of the early Yangtze Patrol and nicknamed "tars" U.S. Navy sailors, on board an 1864 river gunboat USS Ashuelot, a steam-powered, U.S. Navy river gunboat, on the Yangtze Patrol, in service, for one year, in 1874, to protect American interests, in Shanghai, China, and ...
The second USS Panay (PR–5) of the United States Navy was a Panay-class river gunboat that served on the Yangtze Patrol in China until being sunk by Japanese aircraft on 12 December 1937 on the Yangtze River. The vessel was built by Jiangnan Dockyard and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China, and launched on 10 November 1927. She was sponsored ...
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate first class, aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo, on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China.
Nanjing in 1927 was a treaty port located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River, a large waterway that separates northern and southern China.Because the foreign interests in China were largely American and European, squadrons of foreign naval vessels were stationed along the Yangtze to protect their citizens doing business at the treaty ports.
The Navy had built a large number of gunboats for the Crimean war in the 1850s and several of these found their way to the China Station afterwards. As these boats were scrapped, they were replaced by a new type of boat which was purpose built for inshore and river service around the world, the Beacon - and later Frolic -class boats .
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Chan, Anthony B. Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928. 2nd ed. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. Jordan, Donald A. The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926–1928. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1976. ——. China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of ...