USS Isla de Luzon (1887)
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| Name: | USS Isla de Luzon |
| Namesake: | The island of Luzon (Spanish Navy name retained) |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong Mitchell & Company, Elswick, Tyne and Wear, England |
| Laid down: | 25 February 1886 |
| Launched: | 13 November 1886 |
| Completed: | 22 September 1887 |
| Acquired: | by capture, 1 May 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 31 January 1900 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 February 1919 |
| Struck: | 23 July 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold into mercantile service, 10 March 1920 |
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| Class and type: | Isla de Luzon-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 950 long tons (965 t) |
| Length: | 195 ft (59 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 4.75 in (3.4735 m) (mean) |
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| Speed: | 11.2 knots (20.7 km/h; 12.9 mph) |
| Complement: | 137 officers and enlisted |
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| Armor: | Deck: 1–2.5 in (25–64 mm) |
USS Isla de Luzon was a former Spanish Navy second-class protected cruiser of the same name, captured by and commissioned into the U.S. Navy as a gunboat.
Isla de Luzon was built in 1886–1887 for the Spanish Navy by Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom as a second-class protected cruiser. She fought in the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines during the Spanish–American War in 1898, suffering light damage, and was scuttled after the battle. She settled in shallow water, after which a U.S. Navy boarding party from gunboat USS Petrel went aboard and set her upper works on fire.
The U.S. Navy took possession of her, refloated her, towed her to Singapore and repaired her damage. The Spanish 4.7-inch (120-mm) guns were removed and replaced with 4-inch (102-mm) guns mounted on her forecastle and poop. She was reboilered with Babcock & Wilcox boilers in 1911.
USS Isla de Luzon commissioned in the United States Navy on 31 January 1900, Commander J. V. B. Bleecker in command.
Operating out of Zamboanga, Philippine Islands, Isla de Luzon supported naval and land operations against Philippine insurgents. She was a unit of the Southern Squadron that cut off the Philippine insurgents' supplies on Samar; and assisted in the capture of Lukban, the insurgent leader in Samar, and the close blockade of the island of Samar, all of which contributed to the final declaration of armistice.
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