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Wilmington

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No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
PG8	Wilmington	8	Newport News	10.1894	19.10.1895	5.1897	miscellaneous auxiliary (Naval Reserve TS) IX30 Dover 1.1941
PG9	Helena	9	Newport News	10.1894	30.1.1896	7.1897	stricken 5.1932

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1397
Displacement full, t	1689
Length, m	76.4
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	2.74 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	1900
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 277
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 25, deck: 38
Armament	8 x 1 - 102/40 Mk III/IV/V/VI, 4 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 4 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I
Complement	183 - 199

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 2.3.1893. Single-masted ships, rated as sloops in British lists, with one tall funnel, and were cut down to the main deck aft. Two of the 102mm guns were on the upper deck forward with two aft and four amidships on the main deck.  Their draught was shallower than in other US gunboats of their size.

Ship protection

102mm guns on the main deck had 64mm protection and there was a strip of 25mm amidships on the wl.

Modernizations

1914, both: - 4 x 1 - 57/50, 4 x 1 - 37/40; + 4 x 1 - 47/40-45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II

1921, Wilmington: was reboilered with 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

by 1940, Wilmington: was armed with 1 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 5 x 1 - 76/52 Mk 10

Naval service

Wilmington was latterly a training ship, and in the Second World War was renamed Dover and numbered IX30. Wilmington was finally stricken only in January 1946.