USS Wheeling (PG-14)
USS Wheeling (PG-14) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, c. August 1897.
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 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.
The first ship to be so named by the U.S. Navy, Wheeling (Gunboat No. 14) was laid down on 11 April 1896 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works; launched on 18 March 1897; sponsored by Miss Lucie S. Brown; and commissioned on 10 August 1897, Comdr. Uriel Sebree in command.
Following a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands in the fall of 1897, Wheeling reported for duty in the northern Pacific Ocean and spent the entire period of the Spanish–American War patrolling the Alaskan coast and the Aleutian Islands. The vessel sustained major hull damage during patrols off the coast of Alaska.
In the spring of 1899, the gunboat was ordered to the Far East to reinforce the American fleet supporting operations to suppress the Philippine–American War. Until the spring of 1900, the gunboat patrolled the islands, enforced the blockade, convoyed troop transports, and helped the U.S. Army maintain communications between its units operating on various islands of the archipelago.
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