2023年1月17日 · This is the latest USN ship that I've commissioned my friend, Dennis, to build for me. It's being built as a tribute to COMYANGPAT at the time that six new gunboats for the Yangtze Patrol were built at Shanghai between 1926-27, and commissioned between 1927-28. All were capable of reaching Chungking at high water, and all year-round.

2009年8月23日 · To commemorate the services performed by the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps during the operations in the valley of the Yangtze River, China, in 1926 and 1927, and 1930 and 1932, a medal to be known as the "Yangtze Service Medal" will be issued to the officers and enlisted men who participated in those operations.

2025年1月2日 · Hello, I know there have been several threads on the Yangtze Barrier Medal, but I thought I would start the new year off with a new one. The sailor named on this one, Peter Paul Sarafin, served in U.S.S. Guam from around 1936-1940. Prior to that he served in U.S.S. Black Hawk. The attached articl...

2009年5月11日 · Set in pre-WWII China, and based upon a novel by Richard McKenna, a career Navy-man who spent time in the Far East during the 1930's including, I think at least one tour on a Yangtze River gunboat. After McKenna retired from the Navy and graduated from college, he wrote a novel about a small American gunboat the USS San Pablo operating in and ...

2019年10月6日 · USS Palos (PG-16) during river trials on May 27, 1914 on the Yangtze River. Note the apparent lack of any U.O.D. (Uniform of the Day) with sailors in dress whites, dress blues and various forms of utility work uniforms, while the C.O. , X.O. and the chiefs are in dress blues, with white covers. Very China sailor, very Sand Pebbles.

2024年6月23日 · Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay were the first humans to reach Earth's highest point: the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. They reached the top at 11:30 am on 29 May 1953.

2014年12月30日 · The US Navy's Yangtze Patrol The river patrol craft had a shallow draft and were not built for ocean travel. Their rudders and propellers were practically at the water's surface. The USS Mindanao (PR-8) was one of eight gunboats built for service on the Yangtze River and Chinese coastal waters. The ship was built in Shanghai, China, by the ...

2022年4月24日 · To begin, the first USS PIGEON (AM-47) a Lapwing class WWI minesweeper converted to a gunboat for service on the Yangtze. ...and after her conversion to (ASR-6) a diving & submarine rescue 'blackfish' vessel serving the China Fleet PIGEON as a seaplane tender in China PIGEON during diving operations in China

2014年3月23日 · In May of 1925 he is in the Far East assigned to the USS Isabel, the flag ship of the Yangtze patrol. His time on the Isabel is brief, because within 9 months he is aboard the USS Monocacy. At only 165 feet long, 207 tons with a draft of only 2.5 feet, this little gunboat is assigned to the far reaches of the Yangtze River.

2019年12月8日 · LCDR Arthur G. Robinson, when he commanded the Yangtze Patrol river gunboat U.S.S. Palos, pictured with other Asiatic fleet or Yangtze Patrol C.O.’s at Chungking, China, 1,326 miles upriver from Shanghai, in 1926. Pictured in front are CIC Asiatic Fleet ADM Henry H. Hough and Commander, Yangtze Patrol (ComYangPat) RADM Henry H. Hough.