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WHat was the true name of the gunboat in the movie sand pebbles?
Was this vessel a real gunboat or was it converted from some other vessel if so which vessel?
I don't mean the movie name of the ship I know in the movie it's called San Pablo
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- cruisingyetiLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
150-foot steel-hulled replica of the gunboat San Pablo had been built for the film. The San Pablo was patterned alter the Villa Lobos, a gunboat captured built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey
150-foot steel-hulled replica of the gunboat San Pablo had been constructed in Hong Kong
The "US San Pablo" is a sailing and shooting replica of a US Navy gunboat uset on mainland China rivers during the 1920s.
Amazing stuff: look close in the film and you will notice a radar reflector in the mast area.
Source(s): 1963-65 newspaper clips - Anonymous1 decade ago
The San Pablo was fictional but based on several old pieces of junk the US had "inherited" from Spain in the Spanish-American War. I'm amazed they made it from the Philipines to China in the first place.
