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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, t	1170
Length, m	57.8
Breadth, m	10.4
Draught, m	3.66
No of shafts	2
Machinery	PG14: 2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers PG15: 2 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	1050
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 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

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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.