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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Minneapolis''''' was one of two [[Columbia Class Cruiser (1892)|''Columbia'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Minneapolis''''' was one of two [[Columbia Class Cruiser (1892)|''Columbia'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
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She commissioned at Philadelphia on 13 December, 1894 under the command of Captain [[George Henry Wadleigh|George H. Wadleigh]].
 
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==Captains==
 
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Revision as of 19:29, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Minneapolis (1893)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 13[1]
Builder: Cramp[2]
Ordered: Act of 2 March, 1891[3]
Laid down: 16 Dec, 1891[4]
Launched: 12 Aug, 1893[5]
Commissioned: 13 Dec, 1894[6]
Sold: 15 Mar, 1921[7]
Fate: 5 August, 1921[8]

U.S.S. Minneapolis was one of two Columbia Class protected cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

She commissioned at Philadelphia on 13 December, 1894 under the command of Captain George H. Wadleigh.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 154.
  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. 449.

Bibliography


Columbia Class Protected Cruiser
  Columbia Minneapolis  
<– Cincinnati Class Minor Cruisers (US) U.S.S. Olympia –>