Wheeling 1914
| 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 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
1000 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1170 |
|
Length, m |
57.8 |
|
Breadth, m |
10.4 |
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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 |
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.
Marietta 1910
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