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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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Marietta 62k Photographed in 1897-98.
Copied from the Journal of Naval Cadet C.R. Miller, 1898, page 67.
U.S. Navy photo NH 46643
Naval Historical Center
Marietta 97k c. July 1910
Courtesy U.S. Warships of World War I
Mike Green

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