USS Wake (PR-3)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	River gunboat
Class	Wake
Pennant	PR-3
Built by	Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works (Shanghai, China)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	28 May 1927
Commissioned	28 Dec 1927
Lost	8 Dec 1941
History	USS Guam was renamed USS Wake in Janaury 1941 USS Wake (Lt Cmdr Columbus Darwin Smith, USNR) was captured by the Japanese at Shanghai on 8 December 1941 Stricken on 25 March 1942 See also this website (offsite link). Renamed Tatara by the Japanese Recovered by US forces in August 1945 Transferred to Nationalist China in 1946 being renamed Tai Yuan Captured by the Communist China in 1949
Former name	Guam

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	Commander	From	To
1	Columbus Darwin Smith, USNR	Nov 1941	8 Dec 1941

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