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Gunboat No. 8 / PG-8 Wilmington / IX-30 Dover

Wilmington Class Gunboat: Laid down, 8 October 1894 by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 19 October 1895; Commissioned USS Wilmington (Gunboat No. 8), 13 May 1897; Reclassified PG-8, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 30 June 1904 at Cavite, Philippines; Recommissioned, 2 April 1906; Reclassified a Miscellaneous Unclassified Vessel and renamed USS Dover (IX-30), 27 January 1941; Decommissioned 20 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 8 January 1946; Sold for scrap, 30 December 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,571 t; Length 251' 10"; Beam 40' 2"; Draft 9'; Speed unknown; Complement 212; Armament eight 4" gun mounts, (received one 5" mount, 24 November 1942) four 3-pounders; Propulsion, steam.
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Wilmington 81k c. 1898. Courtesy of CDR Donald J. Robinson,
MSC, USN. US Navy photo # NH 91824		 Naval Historical Center
Wilmington 50k - Ken Laesser
Crew Members 118k "The Merry Cherry Pickers," Shanghai, China. c. 1909. Scot McCoy
Crew Member 131k S/2c A, N, Everett, USN. Shanghai, China. c. 1909. Scot McCoy
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