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Gunboat No. 2 / PG-2 Petrel


A 4th rate Gunboat: Laid down, 27 August 1887 by the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Co., Baltimore, MD; Launched, 13 October 1888; Commissioned USS Petrel (Gunboat No. 2), 10 December 1889; Decommissioned at Cavite, PI, 1889; Recommissioned, 9 May 1910; Decommissioned at New Orleans, LA, 15 July 1919; Struck from the Naval Register, 16 April 1920; Sold to Snare and Treest, New York, 1 November 1920. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 867 t; Length 188'; Beam 31'; Draft 11' 6"; Speed 11.4 kts; Complement 138; Armament four 6" Breech-loading Rifles, two 3-pdrs, one 1-pdr rapid fire gun, two Hotchkiss reviling Cannon, two Gatling guns; Propulsion, steam and sail.
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Petrel 132k - "Life and Heroic Deeds of Admiral Dewey:
Including Battles of the Philippines"
Globe Bible Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia 1899
Courtesy John Kohnen
Petrel 93k Photographed during the 1890s
US Navy Photo NH 44477
Naval Historical Center
Petrel 98k At Hong Kong, 15 April 1898, shortly before the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Note crewmen aloft watching the rowing launches racing past in the foreground, also shipping and Chinese junks in the distance.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor.
US Navy Photo NH 42707
Naval Historical Center
Vicksburg 91k Mare Island Navy Yard, California. An early U.S. Navy submarine (probably Grampus or Pike) underway off the yard, circa early 1905. Gunboats Petrel and Princeton are in the center background. At left are the decommissioned gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1986.
USN Photo NH 100915
Naval Historical Center
Petrel 111k Post Card. c. 1917. Richard Cleaveland

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