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PG-35 / IX-35 Topeka


Gunboat: Laid down in 1881 as Diogenes for Peruvian Government, by George Howaldt, Kiel, Germany, but not delivered; Sold to the Thames Iron Works, London, England; Sold to Japan 1895, not delivered; Acquired by the Navy, renamed USS Topeka and commissioned, 2 April 1898; Converted to gunboat at New York Navy Yard, New York, NY; Decommissioned, 15 February 1899 at the Boston Navy Yard; Recommissioned for training, 15 Aug 1900; Decommissioned, 7 September 1905 at Portsmouth, NH; Recommissioned, 14 June 1916; Decommissioned, 14 September 1916 at New York; Recommissioned, 24 March 1919 at Boston, MA; Decommissioned, 21 November 1919 at Charleston, SC; Reclassified as a Patrol Gunboat PG-35, 17 July 1920; Reclassified as Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary Ship IX-35, 1 July 1921; Recommissioned, 2 July 1923; Decommissioned, 2 December 1929; Struck from the Naval Register, 2 January 1930; Sold for scrap, 2 January 1930 to the Union Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 2,255 t.: Length 259' 4"; Beam 35'; Draft 19' 5"; Speed 16 kts.; Complement 167; Armamant six 4", six 3-pounders, two 1-pounders, and one Colt machine gun.
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Topeka 105k Off the New York Navy Yard, 1898.
Courtesy of Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
US Navy Photo NH 806
Naval Historical Center
Topeka 59k At anchor in 1898.
US Navy Photo NH 60333
Naval Historical Center
Topeka 96k Off the New York Navy Yard, 1898. The receiving ship USS Vermont is visible at right, beyond Topeka's bow.
US Navy Photo NH 63371
Naval Historical Center
Topeka 57k Halftone of a photograph taken in 1898, at the time of the
Spanish-American War.
Copied from "The New Navy of the United States," by N.L. Stebbins,
New York, 1912).
Donation of David Shadell, 1987.
US Navy Photo NH 98239
Naval Historical Center
Topeka 131k At Algiers, Algeria, circa late 1900.
Photographed by J. Geiser, Algiers.
The original photograph is printed on silk.
Collection of Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, USN(MC).
Courtesy of Dr. William R. Braisted.
US Navy Photo NH 91532
Naval Historical Center
Topeka 98k Color-tinted postcard of a photograph copyrighted by Enrique Muller, 1905. It shows Topeka at anchor in Long Island Sound, New York, circa 1904. Ships present in the background include USS Prairie (left) and a torpedo-boat destroyer (right).
US Navy Photo NH 63653-B-KN
Naval Historical Center

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