Gunboat in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War
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History
United States
Name
Mariveles
Builder
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong
Laid down
1886
Acquired
by purchase, 1898
Commissioned
17 June 1899
Decommissioned
8 August 1901
Stricken
8 June 1908
Fate
Sold, 2 January 1909
General characteristics
Type
Gunboat
Displacement
170 long tons (170 t)
Length
99 ft 9 in (30.40 m)
Beam
16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
Draft
6 ft (1.8 m)
Speed
7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph)
Complement
27 officers and enlisted
Armament
1 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) gun
2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns
2 × machine guns
The first USS Mariveles was a gunboat in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War.
A former Spanish unarmored gunboat, Mariveles was laid down in 1886 by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong; purchased by the War Department in 1898; transferred to the Navy on 2 May 1899; and commissioned 17 June 1899, Lt. (jg.) J. W. Oman in command.
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Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando. The transfer...
the Luzon landings, landing men successfully at Nasugbu on 31 January; Mariveles on 15 February; and Corregidor on 17 February. On 25 February she cleared...
Airfield. Japan is bombing the runway. Mariveles surrendered on April 10, 1942 the start of Bataan Death March. Mariveles was retaken in February 1945 Cavite...
American officers, Lanikai, with her Filipino crew, got underway from Mariveles Bay, Luzon, "destination unknown". Heading generally south, hiding in...
damaged in the attack. The auxiliary floating drydock USS Dewey, built in 1905, was scuttled at Mariveles to prevent its capture by the Japanese. In 1942 Japan...
in 1896. During the Philippine–American War, he commanded the gunboat Mariveles. In 1909, he was promoted to commander. He was promoted to captain of...
Depot, and 130 sailors from USS Canopus (AS-9), with 120 sailors from the base facilities at Cavite, Olongapo, and Mariveles, and 120 Marines from an antiaircraft...
Station in gunboat Mariveles. On the morning of October 26, 1901 Midshipman Noa, with an armed crew of six men, put off from the Mariveles in a small boat...
Assigned to the Asiatic Fleet as a submarine tender, she was anchored in Mariveles Bay, Philippine Islands, on 7 December 1941. On 10 December 1941 she was...
on 8 April 1942, she assisted in the evacuation of personnel from the Mariveles Naval Section Base to Corregidor during the Battle of Bataan. On 6 May...
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