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Dubuque (PG 17)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - King - Peter

ex-IX-9
ex-AG-6
ex-Gunboat No. 17


Dubuque served both the U. S. Navy and the Illinois State Militia.
Patrol Gunboat: Built in 1904 by the Gas Engine and Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury and Co., Morris Heights, Long Island, NY; Launched 15 August 1904; Commissioned USS Dubuque, Gunboat No. 17, 3 June 1905; Decommissioned, 22 July 1911 and transferred to the Illinois Naval Militia for use as a training vessel; Recommissioned 4 August 1914; Placed in commission, in reserve 3 October 1914; Fitted out as a mine-training ship and placed in full commission 30 July 1915; Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary, AG-6 in 1919; Decommissioned, 27 May 1919; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-9, 24 April 1922; Recommissioned 25 May 1922 for service as a Naval Reserve training ship; Placed in reduced commission 1 November 1940; Reclassified as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-17, 4 November 1940; Recommissioned 1 July 1941; Decommissioned 7 September 1945; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 19 December 1946; Sold for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 1,225 t.; Length 200' 5; Beam 35'; Draft 13' 4"; Speed 11 kts.; Complement 107; Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose mount, two 4"/50 gun mounts and one 3"/50 dual purpose mount; Propulsion two 235psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 1,000ihp Gas Engine Power Co. verticle triple expansion engines, two shafts.

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USS Dubuque (Gunboat No. 17)
Dubuque 116k Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I. Mike Green
Dubuque 40k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Dubuque 88k . David Buell
Dubuque 81k Photo probably taken whilst serving with the Illinois State Naval Militia.
Photo from the 1914 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships		 Robert Hurst
USS Dubuque (PG 17)
Dubuque 123k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo.		 Joe Radigan
Dubuque 73k 15 June 1943 .
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