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WHEELING patrol gunboats (1897)


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Marietta 1910

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
PG14 Wheeling 45 Union Iron Wks, San Francisco 4/1896 18.3.1897 8.1897 miscellaneous auxiliary IX28 1.1923
PG15 Marietta 46 Union Iron Wks, San Francisco 4.1896 18.3.1897 9.1897 to Naval Militia 5.1912, sold 3.1920


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1000

Displacement full, t1170
Length, m

57.8

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

3.66

No of shafts2
Machinery

PG14: 2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

PG15: 2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

1050

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, tcoal 231
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

6 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I

Complement

140



Standard scale images


<i>Wheeling</i> 1914
Wheeling 1914


Graphics


<i>Marietta</i> 1910
Marietta 1910


Project history

Authorized under the Act of 2.3.1895. These vessels were single-funnelled, two-masted, composite-built, and were rated as sloops in British lists. The 102mm guns were mounted one forward and one aft on the upper deck with four amidships on the main deck.

Modernizations

by 1918, both: - 2 x 1 - 102/40

Naval service

Wheeling was latterly employed as a training ship and numbered IX28 in the Second World War.