USS Wheeling (PG-14) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, c. August 1897.
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United States | |
Name | USS Wheeling |
Namesake | A city on the Ohio border of West Virginia's panhandle. Wheeling is the seat of government for Ohio County. |
Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 11 April 1896 |
Launched | 18 March 1897 |
Sponsored by | Miss Lucie S. Brown |
Commissioned | 10 August 1897 as USS Wheeling, Gunboat No. 14 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1904 at Bremerton, Washington |
In service | 3 May 1910 |
Out of service | 13 February 1946 |
Renamed | Designated PG-14, 17 July 1920 |
Reclassified | as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-28, 21 January 1923 |
Stricken | 28 March 1946 |
Homeport | New York City |
Fate | Sold for scrap 5 October 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wheeling-class gunboat |
Displacement | 990 tons (fl) |
Length | 189' 7" |
Beam | 34' |
Draft | 12' 10" |
Speed | 12 knots |
Complement | 140 |
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USS Wheeling (PG-14) was a Wheeling-class gunboat acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1897. She served as a gunboat during the Spanish–American War as well as a convoy escort during World War I. As IX-28 she also served as a schoolship for the training of Naval Reservists, and, at the end of World War II, just before being struck from the Navy records, she was temporarily assigned as a barracks ship for torpedo boat crews.