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2. United States Asiatic Fleet - Wikipedia

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   Ranger, commandeered by US Navy (lost 28 February 1942) [24] Trabajador, commandeered by US Navy (lost 2 May 1942) 3 auxiliary yard ships [26] YAG-2 (lost 10 December 1941) YAG-3 (lost May 1942) YAG-4 (lost 12 April 1942) 1 two-masted schooner. Lanikai; 1 floating dry dock. Dewey (lost 8 April 1942) 4 Harbor tugs. Banaag (lost 25 December 1941 ...

3. Yangtze Patrol - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. The Sand Pebbles (film) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. USS Panay (PR-5) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Nanking incident of 1927 - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Weak shipbuilding could be the US Navy's Achilles' heel in a ...

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   The US Navy faces critical shipbuilding problems that could hobble it in a war with China.. The Navy's aging fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines faces lengthy maintenance and ...

8. The US Navy is planning for possible war by 2027, when China ...

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   The US Navy is preparing for possible war by 2027, with China in focus, Adm. Lisa Franchetti said. She outlined a seven-goal plan for the US Navy, including having 80% of its forces ready to fight.

9. Jiangnan Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   In the 1920s Kiangnan built six new river gunboats for the US Navy South China Patrol on the Yangtze River. The remaining arms manufacturing arm of the Kiangnan Arsenal operated until its dissolution in 1937, at the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War .