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==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Joseph Lee Jayne|nick=Joseph L. Jayne|appt=12 April, 1906|end=before 16 July, 1906{{INF}}|note=Acting}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Sidney Augustus Staunton|nick=Sidney A. Staunton|appt=16 July, 1906{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 10}}|end=21 December, 1908{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 10}}{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Brainard Taylor Moore|nick=Charles B. T. Moore|appt=21 December, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 8}}}}
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Revision as of 22:22, 2 February 2022

U.S.S. Colorado (1903)
Hull Number: ACR-7
Builder: William Cramp & Sons[1]
Ordered: Act of 7 June, 1900[2]
Laid down: 25 Apr, 1901[3]
Launched: 25 Apr, 1903[4]
Commissioned: 19 Jan, 1905[5]
Sold: 1930[6]

U.S.S. Colorado was one of six Pennsylvania Class armoured cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

She was renamed U.S.S. Pueblo on 9 November, 1916 to free the name for the super-dreadnought U.S.S. Colorado.

Service

Colorado was commissioned on 19 January, 1905 under the command of Captain Duncan Kennedy.

She was renamed U.S.S. Pueblo on 9 September 1916 to free her name for the new battleship Colorado.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 148.
  7. Register of Officers, 1906. p. 8.
  8. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 10.
  9. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 10.
  10. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 8.
  11. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
  12. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 10.
  13. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 12.
  14. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 12.
  15. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 12.
  16. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 12.
  17. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 24.
  18. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 24.
  19. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 16.
  20. Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 16-17.
  21. Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 16-17.

Bibliography


Pennsylvania Class Armoured Cruiser
  Pennsylvania West Virginia California  
  Colorado Maryland South Dakota  
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