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Wheeling (IX 28)



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Roger - Peter

ex-Wheeling (PG 14)



Call sign (1919):
George - Rush - Nan - Fox

ex-Wheeling, Gunboat No. 14



Call sign (1912):
Nan - Watch - Have
Wheeling Class Gunboat:

  • Laid down 11 April 1896 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA
  • Launched 18 March 1897
  • Commissioned USS Wheeling, Gunboat No. 14, 10 August 1897
  • Decommissioned 23 January 1901 at Mare Island
  • Recommissioned 26 February 1902
  • Decommissioned 1 July 1904 at Bremerton, WA and laid up at Puget Sound Navy Yard
  • Recommissioned 3 May 1910
  • Designated PG-14, 17 July 1920
  • Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-28, 21 January 1923
  • Placed out of service 13 February 1946
  • Struck from the Navy Register 28 March 1946
  • Sold for scrap 5 October 1946.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 990 t.(fl)
  • Length 189' 7"
  • Beam 34'
  • Draft 12' 10"
    1921 - 12'
  • Speed 12 kts.
  • Complement 140
  • Armament: Six 4" gun mounts, four 6-pounder rifles, two 1-pounders and one Colt machine gun
    1911 - Six 4"/40 rapid fire mounts, four 3-pounder rapid fire mounts and two 1-pounder rapid fire mounts
  • Propulsion: Two single-ended cylindrical boilers, one 1080ihp vertical triple expansion steam engine, sail area 3,997 sq.ft., one shaft
    1921 - One 1,063ihp vertical triple expansion steam engine.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Wheeling (Gunboat No. 14)
    Wheeling 143k Line drawing from Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 3, 1895. Robb Jensen collection Robb Jensen
    Wheeling 143k c. 1896
    Under construction at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
    National Archives photo 19-N-12-27-1     		Mike Green
    Wheeling 1.5m

    Launching of Wheeling & Marietta at Union Iron Works, 18 March 1897.

    NHHC photo #NH75305    		 Darryl Baker
    USS Wheeling (Gunboat No. 14)
    Wheeling 315k 10 August 1897
    Mare Island
    Commissioning day
    U.S. Navy photo PG 14 10Aug1897    		 Darryl Baker
    Wheeling 114k At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa August 1897
    Photo from the William H. Topley Collection, courtesy of Charles M. Loring, Napa, CA, 1972
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 76101    		 Robert Hurst
    Wheeling 275k 10 September 1897
    Mare Island Channel
    U.S. Navy photo PG 14 10Sep1897    		 Darryl Baker
    Wheeling 270k c. 1901
    Mare Island sea wall
    Her mast and much of her topside equipment have been removed
    Wheeling 262k
    Wheeling 235k
    Wheeling 393k
    Wheeling 201k c. March 1902
    Mare Island
    Wheeling 332k
    Wheeling 277k
    Wheeling 190k
    Wheeling 501k 27 December 1905
    Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA
    The decommissioned Wheeling
    Photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum    		 Darryl Baker
    Photo added 25 July 2021
    Wheeling 439k 27 January 1911
    Portsmouth, NH
    Library of Congress photo    		 Bill Gonyo
    Wheeling 60k Photo by Fons from the 1919 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships Robert Hurst
    USS Wheeling (IX 28)
    Wheeling 68k New York Gunter Krebs
    Wheeling 140k 9 July 1943
    Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
    Wheeling, seen over the bow of Iowa (BB 61) while serving as a Barracks Ship for PT boat crews
    National Archives photo 19-N-48464    		 John Chiquoine
    Wheeling 138k 3 September 1943
    Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
    Wheeling, seen with PT-382 and PT-383 alongside while serving as Barracks Ship for PT boats
    National Archives photo 19-LCM-dd620
    Commanding Officers
    01CDR Uriel Sebree, USN - USNA Class of 1867
    Retired as Rear Admiral    		10 August 1897 - 31 May 1898
    02CDR William Turnbull Burwell, USN - USNA Class of 186631 May 1898 - 14 May 1900
    03CDR Albert Reynolds Couden, USN - USNA Class of 1867
    Retired as Rear Admiral    		14 May 1900 - 27 November 1901
    04CAPT Uriel Sebree, USN - USNA Class of 1867
    Retired as Rear Admiral    		27 November 1901 - 19 February 1903
    05CDR Edmund Beardsley Underwood, USN - USNA Class of 187319 February 1903 - 1 July 1904
    06CDR Edward Walter Eberle, USN - USNA Class of 1885
    Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1919)
    Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1915 - 1919) and served as the Third Chief of Naval Operations (21 July 1923 - 14 November 1927) - Retired as Admiral    		24 January 1910 - 28 April 1910
    07CDR Carlo Bonaparte Brittain, USN - USNA Class of 1888
    Awarded the Navy Cross (Posthumously) - Died in 1920 while still on duty as a Rear Admiral    		28 April 1910
    08CDR Roscoe Charles Moody, USN - USNA Class of 1894
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Captain    		20 October 1913 - 20 July 1914
    09LT William Donaldson Greetham, USN20 July 1914
    10CDR Edward Howe Watson, USN - USNA Class of 1895
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Captain    		15 June 1915 - 15 October 1917
    11CDR Lewis Broughton Porterfield, USN - USNA Class of 1902
    Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1918) - Retired as Rear Admiral    		15 October 1917 - 1918
    12LCDR Hugo Wilson Osterhaus, USN - USNA Class of 1900
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Rear Admiral    		1918 - 15 March 1919
    13CDR John Hall Blackburn, USN - USNA Class of 190215 March 1919 - 18 October 1919
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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