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Gunboat No. 15 / PG-15 Marietta
Wheeling Class Gunboat: Laid down 3 April 1896 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.; Launched 18 March 1897; Commissioned USS Marietta (Gunboat No. 15), 1 September 1897; Decommissioned at Boston Navy Yard 6 May 1903; Recommissioned 11 February 1904; Decommissioned at League Island, PA.,
21 January 1905; Recommissioned 14 May 1906; Turned over to New Jersey Naval Militia 27 May 1912; Decommissioned 12 July 1919 at New Orleans, LA.; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold 25 March 1920. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 1,000 t; Length 189 ' 7"; Beam 34'; Draft 12'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 140; Armament six 4" gun mounts, one 3" gun mount, four 6-pounders, two 1-pounders, and one Colt machine gun; Propulsion steam.
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Photographed in 1897-98. Copied from the Journal of Naval Cadet C.R. Miller, 1898, page 67. U.S. Navy photo NH 46643 |
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c. July 1910 Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I |
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