Protected Cruisers

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Lead Ship, Protected Cruiser USS Cincinnati pictured c1894.

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Lead Ship, Protected Cruiser USS Saint Louis pictured off Boston Harbor on September 14th 1917.

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Protected Cruiser USS Olympia pictured in Dry Dock No 2 at Norfolk Navy Yard on October 5th 1903.

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The keel for Cincinnati Class Protected Cruiser USS Raleigh pictured set on the ways at Norfolk Navy Yard on January 1st 1890.

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St Louis Class Protected Cruiser USS Milwaukee pictured c1907.

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Cincinnati Class Protected Cruiser USS Raleigh pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1898.

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Protected Cruiser USS Baltimore pictured post her Far East Deployment undergoing her major refit, at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1903. Her extensive refit involved re-engining, re-boilering, mast replacements and re-gunning.

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Columbia Class Protected Cruiser USS Minneapolis pictured in Dry Dock No 4 at Brooklyn Navy Yard on February 1st 1906...The BB in the background is either Indiana or Massachusetts.

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St Louis Class Protected Cruiser USS Charleston pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard on April 4th 1906.

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Denver Class Protected Cruiser USS Chattanooga pictured fitting out at Brooklyn Navy Yard on October 1st 1904...She was one of six Denver-Class Protected Cruisers ordered for the USN on December 14th 1899. She was laid down at Crescent Shipyard of Elizabethport, New Jersey on March 29th 1900, and launched on March 7th 1903. Construction was much slower than contracted (the contracted completion date was June 14th 1902), so the US Government cancelled the contract and took possession of the part-completed ship, which was moved to Brooklyn Navy Yard for finishing in October 1903. Chattanooga was commissioned on October 11th 1904, after sea trials in January 1905, during which she reached a speed of 16.65 knots in a four-hour trial, she reported to the Atlantic Fleet. She was sold for scrap on March 8th 1930.