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Gunboat No. 14 / PG-14 / IX-28 Wheeling


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; Redesignated Unclassified Miscellaneous IX-28, 21 January 1923; Placed out of service, 13 February 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946; Sold for scrapping, 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, steam.
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Wheeling 68k Seen as IX-28 in New York. Gunter Krebs

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