page_title: USS DeLong (TB-28)
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: USS DeLong (TB-28) / External links
caption_attribution_description: Photo #: NH 64059. USS DeLong (Torpedo Boat # 28). Under construction at the George Lawley &amp; Sons shipyard, South Boston, Massachusetts, 3 July 1900. Probably photographed from on board her sister torpedo boat, USS Blakely (Torpedo Boat # 27). Photograph from the Skerritt Collection, Bethlehem Steel Corporation Archives. Provided by courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
context_page_description: USS DeLong was a United States Navy Blakely class torpedo boat and minesweeper. DeLong (TB-28) was launched 23 November 1900 by George Lawley & Son, South Boston, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. S. DeL. Mills, daughter of Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long; and commissioned 27 October 1902, Lieutenant J. F. Marshall in command.
  Between 4 November 1902 and 2 July 1906, the DeLong was assigned to the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla at Norfolk, Virginia, then was returned to full commission for torpedo practice and training along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. Again out of commission between 7 August 1909 and 30 April 1910, this time at Boston, the DeLong was in reserve at Charleston from 20 May 1910, going to sea occasionally to maintain her readiness for action. She lay in ordinary between 14 March 1914 and 7 April 1917, when upon the entry of the United States into World War I, she was recommissioned and fitted out as a minesweeper.
  The DeLong was based on Norfolk for minesweeping duty until 2 May 1918, when she sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and patrol duty with the Submarine Chaser Flotilla.
context_section_description: USN Ships--USS DeLong (Torpedo Boat # 28) United States Navy - Navy Historical Center
caption: The ship under construction at the George Lawley & Son shipyard
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