USS Petrel (PG-2)
The third USS Petrel (PG-2) was a 4th rate gunboat in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. She was named for a sea bird.
Petrel was laid down on 27 August 1887, built by the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Company in Baltimore, Maryland; launched on 13 October 1888; and commissioned 10 December 1889, with Lieutenant Commander W. H. Bronson in command.
Read more about USS Petrel (PG-2): Service in The Pacific, Service in The Atlantic
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“Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)