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    The Yangtze Patrol, also known as the Yangtze River Patrol Force, Yangtze River Patrol, YangPat, and ComYangPat, was a prolonged naval operation from 1854...
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    Pebbles is an example of this class of vessel, serving on the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol. Stronger river warships with larger guns were river monitors. Various...
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  • States military Yangtze Patrol "Yangtze Service Medal". History.navy.mil. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 2012-03-24. "YANGTZE SERVICE MEDAL...
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    USS Panay incident (category Battles and operations of the Yangtze Patrol)
    served as part of the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol in the Asiatic Fleet, which was responsible for patrolling the Yangtze River to protect American lives...
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    Maryland. In retirement, he wrote more than 100 articles and three books, "Yangtze Patrol," "Cruise of the Lanikai" and "Caviar and Commissars." In 1992, he was...
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    USS Tutuila (PR-4) (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    Assigned to the Yangtze Patrol (YangPat) and redesignated river gunboat PR-4 on 16 June 1928, Tutuila cruised on shakedown up the Yangtze River from Shanghai...
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    USS Panay (PR-5) (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    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...
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    Nanking incident of 1927 (category Battles and operations of the Yangtze Patrol)
    under Rear Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt and the United States Navy the Yangtze Patrol; both lasted for around 80 years until World War II. On 23 March 1927...
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    transported to China and served on the Yangtze River. In 1920, Bee became the flagship of the Yangtze patrol. On 12 December 1937, Bee, along with Ladybird...
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    Shanghai Municipal Police, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the Yangtze Patrol, and the eventual 1863 merging of many of the Shanghai's foreign concessions...
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    USS Villalobos (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    spent almost all of her life as an American gunboat in the Yangtze Patrol on the Yangtze River. The ship was constructed in Hong Kong for the Spanish...
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    USS Wake (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    gunboat operating on the Yangtze River. Originally commissioned as the gunboat Guam (PG-43), she was redesignated river patrol vessel PR-3 in 1928, and...
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  • The Sand Pebbles (film) (category Yangtze Patrol)
    mate first class, aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo, on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China. The production was filmed on location in Taiwan and...
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    the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He commanded the Yangtze Patrol from 1925 to 1927. He was born on January 8, 1871, in the French overseas...
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    in colonies or in weaker countries, for example in China (see e.g. Yangtze Patrol). This category of gunboat inspired the term "gunboat diplomacy". With...
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    States Navy in 1938. He was stationed for three years in China with the Yangtze Patrol. He joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1941, but he quickly...
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    cruisers were withdrawn from the Far East. Gunboats patrolled the Yangtze River in the Yangtze Patrol. After Rear Admiral Charles J. Train became commander-in-chief...
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    30s, Hankou was one of the Yangtze River ports patrolled by the US Navy to maintain US interests in the area (Yangtze Patrol.) Hankou was flooded in the...
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    USS Luzon (PG-47) (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    the Yangtze River in China, Luzon was redesignated PR-7 on 15 June. From commissioning until December 1938, she served as the flagship of the Yangtze River...
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    USS Mindanao (PR-8) (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    take up station. Arriving on 22 September, the ship remained there on Yangtze Patrol convoy duty until sailing back to Shanghai for fuel and repairs on 28...
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    USS Palos (PG-16) (category Ships of the Yangtze Patrol)
    agreement allowed Allied warships to continue patrols, Palos spent her entire career as part of the Yangtze Patrol. During the course of her service, the gunboat...
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  • Yuan F-827 (ex USN DE-579) Yangtze Patrol gunboats ROCN Tai Yuan (ex USN PR-3) ROCN Mei Yuan (ex USN PR-4) PCE-842-class patrol craft ROCN Shan Hai PF-41...
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    district patrol craft YP-16 and YP-17 and about 70 miscellaneous district craft were lost in the Philippines in 1942. China Yangtze Patrol Rear Admiral...
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    USS Isabel (category Patrol vessels of the United States Navy)
    the Yangtze Patrol on the Yangtze River. Transiting the Panama Canal, she arrived at Hong Kong on 7 November 1921. She became flagship of the patrol's commander...
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    and USS Oklahoma. After the war, McVay served as a commander in the Yangtze Patrol. At this time, the United States, along with Japan and the major European...
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    interference in the 2024 United States elections Military relations Yangtze Patrol Alice Dollar incident Second Sino-Japanese War American Volunteer Group...
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    War II. The book begins with the evacuation of Shanghai in 1941. Yangtze Patrol Yangtze Service Medal Operation Beleaguer China Service Medal History of...
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    Asiatic station where he commanded gunboats USS Quiros and Elcano on the Yangtze Patrol and the destroyer USS Smith Thompson, practically all his sea service...
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    Hough, as commander of the Asiatic Fleet's storied Yangtze Patrol on December 2, 1927. The Patrol, formally organized in December 1919 as a U.S. Naval...
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  • The Sand Pebbles (novel) (category Yangtze Patrol)
    Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper...
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