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Wheeling (IX 28)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Roger - Peter

ex-PG-14
ex-Gunboat No. 14

Wheeling Class Gunboat: Laid down, 11 April 1896 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA; Launched, 18 March 1897; Commissioned USS Wheeling, Gunboat No. 14, 10 August 1897; Decommissioned, 1 July 1904 at Bremerton, WA; Laid up at Puget Sound Navy Yard; Recommissioned, 3 May 1910; Designated PG-14, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-28, 21 January 1923; Placed out of service, 13 February 1946; Struck from the Navy Register 28 March 1946; Sold for scrap 5 October 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 990 t.(fl); Length 189' 7"; Beam 34'; Draft 12' 10"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 140; Armament six 4" gun mounts, four 6-pounder rifles, two 1-pounders, one Colt machine gun; Propulsion two verticle triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

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USS Wheeling, Gunboat No. 14
Wheeling 114k At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa August 1897.
Photo from the William H. Topley Collection, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, Napa, CA, 1972.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 76101		 Robert Hurst
Wheeling 60k Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
Wheeling 60k Photo by Fons from the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
USS Wheeling (IX 28)
Wheeling 68k New York. Gunter Krebs
View the Wheeling (PG-14)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site
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