Difference between revisions of "Atlanta Class Cruiser (1884)"

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Two Atlanta Class cruisers were completed for the U.S. Navy in the mid-1880s.

Overview of two vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Atlanta	John Roach	8 November, 1883	9 October, 1884	19 July, 1886	Sold 10 June, 1912
Boston	John Roach	15 November, 1883	4 December, 1884	2 May, 1887	Sunk 8 April, 1946

Congressional partisan allegations drove John Roach into bankruptcy, and both ships had to be completed at New York Navy Yard.^[1]^[2]

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.

Atlanta Class Protected Cruiser

Minor Cruisers (US)

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 ==Construction==
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+Congressional partisan allegations drove [[John Roach and Sons|John Roach]] into bankruptcy, and both ships had to be completed at [[New York Navy Yard]].{{Conways1860|p. 150}}{{FriedmanUSCruisers|p. 19}}
 ==Armament==