&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Asheville_(PG-21)_at_anchor_in_the_Panama_Canal_Zone,_circa_in_the_1920s_(80-G-1034878).jpg) Asheville, during her service in the Canal Zone.
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Charleston Naval Shipyard, North Charleston, South Carolina |
| Operators |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by | USS Sacramento |
| Succeeded by | Erie class |
| Built | 1917–1919 |
| In commission | 1920–1946 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 1,575 long tons (1,600 t) |
| Length | 241 ft 2 in (73.51 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft 3 in (12.57 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 4 in (3.45 m) |
| Propulsion | 3 × Thornycroft Bureau Modified steam boilers |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 159 |
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The Asheville-class gunboat was a class of two gunboats, USS Tulsa and USS Asheville,[1][2] which was based on Sacramento, an earlier gunboat.[3] Laid down between 1917 and 1919, construction was completed in the early 1920s after which both ships were employed to project US naval power across several different theaters, including Central America and the Pacific, during the interwar years. Tulsa principally served in Asia, assigned variously with the South China Patrol, Yangtze Patrol, and the Inshore Patrol; Asheville mostly stayed in Central America, but did spend a few years on the South China Patrol alongside Tulsa. When war broke out with Japan in the Pacific, both ships were used to escort convoys. Asheville was lost during the war, but Tulsa survived to be broken up in the late 1940s. The class was awarded a total of three battle stars, one for Asheville and two for Tulsa.[1][2]