USS Topeka (PG-35)

USS Topeka (pg-35)
History
United States
Name	USS Topeka
Namesake	Topeka, Kansas
Builder	Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany
Launched	1881 Built for the Peruvian Navy, retained in England
Acquired	2 April 1898
Commissioned	2 April 1898
Decommissioned	15 February 1899
Recommissioned	15 August 1900
Decommissioned	7 September 1905
Recommissioned	14 June 1916
Decommissioned	14 September 1916
Recommissioned	24 March 1919
Decommissioned	21 November 1919
Reclassified	PG-35, 17 July 1920 IX-35, 1 July 1921
Recommissioned	2 July 1923
Decommissioned	2 December 1929
Stricken	2 January 1930
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 13 May 1930
General characteristics
Type	Gunboat
Displacement	2,255 long tons (2,291 t) normal
Length	259 ft 4 in (79.04 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m) at the waterline
Draft	16 ft 5 in (5.00 m) aft
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	167 officers and enlisted
Armament	6 × 4 in (100 mm) gun 6 × 3-pounder guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 1 × Colt machine gun (M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun)

USS Topeka (PG-35) was a gunboat of the United States Navy.

The ship was built in 1881 as the Socrates-class steamer (and prospectively, the Lima-Class cruiser Callao) Diogenes by the Howaldtswerke at Kiel, Germany. Acquired by the Navy from the Thames Iron Works, London, England, on 2 April 1898, she was renamed Topeka, and placed in commission the same day.