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 USS Quiros
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| History | |
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 Spain | |
| Name | Quirós |
| Namesake | Pedro Fernández de Quirós (1565–1614) |
| Builder | Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong |
| Laid down | June 1894 |
| Launched | 1895 |
| Commissioned | 1896 |
| Fate |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Quiros |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
| Acquired | 21 February 1900 |
| Commissioned | 14 March 1900 |
| Decommissioned | 29 January 1904 |
| Recommissioned | 2 September 1904 |
| Decommissioned | 11 March 1908 |
| Recommissioned | 11 October 1910 |
| Out of service | Interned 5 May 1917 |
| In service | Released August 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 10 August 1923 |
| Fate | Sunk as target 16 October 1923 |
| General characteristics (in Spanish Navy) | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 347 long tons (353 t) |
| Length | 44.3 m (145 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | Triple-expansion engine, 500 hp (370 kW), one shaft, bunker capacity 75 tons of coal |
| Sail plan | Schooner rig |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 3,800 nautical miles (7,000 km; 4,400 mi) |
| Complement | 37 |
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| General characteristics (in United States Navy) | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 350 long tons (356 t) |
| Length | 145 ft (44 m) |
| Beam | 22 ft 9 in (6.93 m) |
| Draft | 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 57 |
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USS Quiros (PG-40), previously designated Gunboat No. 40, was a United States Navy gunboat in commission from 1900 to 1904, from 1904 to 1908, and from 1910 to 1923, seeing service in the Philippines and China. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in the Spanish Navy from 1896 to 1898 as Quirós, seeing service during the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish–American War.