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Petrel (Gunboat No. 2)

Gunboat: Laid down, 27 August 1887 by the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, MD; Launched, 13 October 1888; Commissioned 10 December 1889; Decommissioned at Cavite, Philippine Islands in 1898; Recommissioned, 9 May 1910; Decommissioned 15 July 1919 at New Orleans, LA; Struck from the Navy Register 16 April 1920; Sold 1 November 1920 to Snare and Treest of New York. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 867 t; Length 188'; Beam 31'; Draft 11' 6"; Speed 11.4 kts; Complement 138; Armament four 6" Breech-loading Rifles, two 3-pounders, one 1-pounder rapid fire gun, two Hotchkiss revolving cannon and two Gatling guns; Propulsion, steam and sail.
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Petrel 132k - "Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey:
Including Battles of the Philippines"
Globe Bible
Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia 1899
Courtesy John Kohnen
Petrel 135k . Geff Adams
Petrel 140k Oil on canvas by Francis Muller.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
Donation of Commodore J.H. Hellweg. Navy Art Accession No.: 51-027-A.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 88068-KN		 Robert Hurst
Petrel 75k . Robert Hurst
Petrel 93k Photographed during the 1890s
U.S. Navy photo NH 44477		 Naval Historical Center
Petrel 200k 16 December 1896 (10:00 am)
Mare Island Navy Yard
U.S. Navy photo PG 2 12181896		 Darryl Baker
Petrel 98k At Hong Kong, 15 April 1898, shortly before the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Note crewmen aloft watching the rowing launches racing past in the foreground, also shipping and Chinese junks in the distance.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation.
Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor.
U.S. Navy photo NH 42707		 Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 91k Mare Island Navy Yard, California. An early U.S. Navy submarine (probably Grampus or Pike) underway off the yard, circa early 1905. Gunboats Petrel and Princeton are in the center background. At left are the decommissioned gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1986.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100915		 Naval Historical Center
Petrel 111k c. 1917
Post Card		 Richard Cleaveland
Petrel 105k c. 1917/1918
Leftmost section (of six) of a panoramic photograph taken from the Naval Station radio tower. Ship at the dock is Petrel, which was then the Station Ship at Guantanamo Bay. A South Carolina class battleship is visible in the
right distance.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Donation of MMC Jesse Forton, USN (Retired), 1972.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 76417		 Robert Hurst
View Petrel (PG-2) Library of Congress Images
View the Petrel (PG-2)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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