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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. Baltimore''' was a [[protected cruiser]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1890.
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. Baltimore''' was a [[protected cruiser]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] in 1890.
She was launched on 6 October 1888 by [[William Cramp & Sons]], sponsored by Mrs. Theodore D. Wilson, wife of Chief Constructor Theodore D. Wilson.  She commissioned on 7 January 1890, with Captain [[Winfield Scott Schley|W. S. Schley]] in command.


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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 19:02, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Baltimore (1888)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 3, CM-1
Builder: Cramp[1]
Ordered: Act of 3 August, 1886[2]
Laid down: 20 January, 1887[3]
Launched: 6 October, 1888[4]
Commissioned: 7 January, 1890[5]
Decommissioned: 15 September, 1922[6]
Sold: 16 February, 1942[7]

U.S.S. Baltimore was a protected cruiser completed for the U.S. Navy in 1890.

She was launched on 6 October 1888 by William Cramp & Sons, sponsored by Mrs. Theodore D. Wilson, wife of Chief Constructor Theodore D. Wilson. She commissioned on 7 January 1890, with Captain W. S. Schley in command.

Construction

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

[8]

  • four 8-inch/35 caliber
  • six 6-inch/30 caliber
  • four 6-pounders
  • two 3-pounders
  • two 1-pounders
  • four 37mm Hotchkiss revolvers
  • two Gatlings
  • five 12-inch torpedo tubes[9]

1902

[10]

  • twelve 6-inch/40 caliber
  • six 14-pounders
  • six 3-pounders

1910

[11]

  • twelve 6-inch/40 caliber
  • six 3-inch
  • six 3-pounders
  • four 1-pounders

1919

[12]

  • four 5-inch/51 caliber
  • two 3-inch/50 caliber AA guns
  • two machine guns

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 151.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  4. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  8. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 459.
  9. ↑ Never mounted, per Silverstone. New Navy. p. 26
  10. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 26.
  11. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 26.
  12. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 151.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


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