High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS DeLong (Torpedo Boat No. 28/TB-28/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 14) 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 DeLong; and commissioned 27 October 1902, Lieutenant J. F. Marshall in command.