USS Wheeling (PG-14)
USS Wheeling (PG-14) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, c. August 1897. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| 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 |
| Stricken | 28 March 1946 |
| Homeport | New York City |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 5 October 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wheeling-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 990 tons (fl) |
| Length | 189 ft 7 in (57.79 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 10 in (3.91 m) |
| Speed | 12 knots |
| Complement | 140 |
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USS Wheeling (PG-14) was a Wheeling-class gunboat acquired by the United States 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.