USS ''Wheeling'' is a name used more than once by the

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: * , laid down on 11 April 1896 at

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, by the Union Iron Works. * , laid down on 10 April 1945 as ''Seton Hall Victory'' by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. under a

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contract (MCV hull 686); launched on 22 May 1945.

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