USS Marietta (PG-15)
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| Name: | Marietta |
| Builder: | Union Iron Works, San Francisco |
| Laid down: | 13 April 1896 |
| Launched: | 18 March 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 1 September 1897 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 July 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold, 25 March 1920 |
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| Type: | Schooner-rigged gunboat |
| Displacement: | 1,000 long tons (1,000 t) |
| Length: | 189 ft 7 in (57.79 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine/sail |
| Speed: | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
| Complement: | 140 |
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USS Marietta was a schooner-rigged gunboat. She was laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California on 13 April 1896 and launched on 18 March 1897, sponsored by Mrs. C. L. More, daughter of Brigadier General T. C. H. Smith and commissioned in September 1897, with Commander F. W. Symonds in command.
Following brief duty on the Pacific station, Marietta departed San Francisco on 19 March 1898 for Callao, Peru to arrange for the coaling of the battleship Oregon which was steaming to join the North Atlantic Squadron off Cuba. Moving on to Valparaíso, Chile on 31 March, the gunboat joined the Oregon on 17 April in Punta Arenas, Chile after having proceeded through the Straits of Magellan, and together the two warships proceeded and up the east coast of South America, separating at Bahia, Brazil on 11 May. She arrived at Key West, Florida on 4 June, then joined the blockade of Havana Harbor.
On 2 September, Marietta arrived at Boston for repairs and then sailed on 10 October for her second tour of duty off Cuba. For the next five months, she patrolled the Caribbean, showed the flag in Latin American ports, and helped clear mines from Cuban waters.
On 17 October, Marietta sailed from Virginia for the Philippines. Steaming via the Suez Canal, she arrived Manila on 3 January 1900. Operating in support of American forces ending the Philippine insurrection, the gunboat acted as a patrol and convoy escort vessel in the Islands, assisting and cooperating with the Army In military expeditions and landings until ordered home on 3 June 1901. Again sailing via Suez, she arrived Boston on 17 September and then proceeded immediately to Portsmouth, New Hampshire reporting to the North Atlantic Squadron.
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