An item reported that when the heavy hurricane which harassed last Tuesday Manila the American gunboats Leyte (1) sunk with on board 11 Americans and 24 natives. The transport Juan Rodriguez was grounded off Legaspi.
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1. The former Spanish gunboat Leyte laid down in 1886 shipyard of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company at Hong Kong, completed four years later and captured by the USA during the war with Spain during 25 April-12 August 1898 on 1 July 1898. According to the website http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09937.htm was she commissioned on 22 March 1900 and already decommissioned on 27 January two years later but not stricken until 27 May 1907 and on 16 December of the same year sold. With a displacement of 151 tons were her dimensions 115” x 17’6’ x 6’9”. Her speed was 8 knots and her crew numbered 27 men with an armament original of 1-6pdr gun and 2-1pdr guns increased in 1905 two Colt machine guns. The newspaper The Milwaukee Journal of 3 July 1898 reported that she was captured after her escape on 1 May with 52 men and that the armament consisted of 1-3.5” Hontoria gun and several 2.7” quick firing guns. The website http://www.spanamwar.com/leyte.htm said that when she was captured she transported around 200 sailors and soldiers, partly sick or wounded with a normally a crew of just 25-35 men. This site claimed that she was completed in 1887 as part of the 2nd class Albay-class gunboats and which was sold to Jose Baza Him Chiuan. With two masts and a steel hull. Armed with 2-3,7cm Gattling guns, 1-7cm breech loading gun and 1-3.5” breech loading gun. This site confirmed the displacement of 151 tons but gives as dimensions 98’5”x 16’6”x 7’4”. The engines supplied 120 hip allowing with a coal bunker capacity of 25 ton a range of 2,000 nautical miles.
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1. The former Spanish gunboat Leyte laid down in 1886 shipyard of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company at Hong Kong, completed four years later and captured by the USA during the war with Spain during 25 April-12 August 1898 on 1 July 1898. According to the website http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09937.htm was she commissioned on 22 March 1900 and already decommissioned on 27 January two years later but not stricken until 27 May 1907 and on 16 December of the same year sold. With a displacement of 151 tons were her dimensions 115” x 17’6’ x 6’9”. Her speed was 8 knots and her crew numbered 27 men with an armament original of 1-6pdr gun and 2-1pdr guns increased in 1905 two Colt machine guns. The newspaper The Milwaukee Journal of 3 July 1898 reported that she was captured after her escape on 1 May with 52 men and that the armament consisted of 1-3.5” Hontoria gun and several 2.7” quick firing guns. The website http://www.spanamwar.com/leyte.htm said that when she was captured she transported around 200 sailors and soldiers, partly sick or wounded with a normally a crew of just 25-35 men. This site claimed that she was completed in 1887 as part of the 2nd class Albay-class gunboats and which was sold to Jose Baza Him Chiuan. With two masts and a steel hull. Armed with 2-3,7cm Gattling guns, 1-7cm breech loading gun and 1-3.5” breech loading gun. This site confirmed the displacement of 151 tons but gives as dimensions 98’5”x 16’6”x 7’4”. The engines supplied 120 hip allowing with a coal bunker capacity of 25 ton a range of 2,000 nautical miles.
