USS Topeka (PG-35)
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USS Topeka (pg-35)
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| Name: | USS Topeka |
| Namesake: | Topeka, Kansas |
| Builder: | Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany |
| Launched: | 1881 Build 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 |
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| Recommissioned: | 2 July 1923 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 December 1929 |
| Struck: | 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 |
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USS Topeka (PG-35) was a gunboat of the United States Navy.
The ship was built in 1881 as the Socrates-class steamer (later as Lima-Class cruiser) 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, Lieutenant John J. Knapp in command.
Topeka cleared Falmouth, England, on 19 April 1898 and arrived at Tompkinsville, New York, on 1 May 1898. The following day, she moved to the New York Navy Yard to begin a two-month overhaul during which she received her armament and generally prepared for duty on the Cuban blockade. The gunboat departed New York on 30 June 1898 and, after a five-day stop at Key West, Florida, joined the blockading forces off Havana on 11 July 1898. That same day, she was assigned station off Nipe Bay, located on the northeastern shore of Cuba almost directly opposite Santiago de Cuba on the island's southeastern coast. On 17 July 1898, she and USS Maple captured the Spanish sloop Domingo Aurelio off Nipe Bay. Four days later, Topeka joined gunboat Annapolis, armed yacht Wasp, and armed tug Leyden in a foray into Nipe Bay. The four warships encountered no real resistance from the Spanish and, therefore, easily captured the port and sank the Spanish sloop Jorge Juan, abandoned by her crew, in the Battle of Nipe Bay.
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