Armoured Cruisers: Tennessee Class

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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS North Carolina pictured at Camden NJ, October,1908.
She was built by Newport News Shipbuilding; she was laid down in March 1905, launched in October 1906, and was commissioned in May 1908. The final class of Armoured Cruisers to be built for the US Navy, North Carolina and her sisters were armed with a main battery of four 10-inch guns, and were capable of a top speed of 22 knots.
North Carolina spent much of her career in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea conducting training and visiting foreign countries. She went on short deployments to the Mediterranean Sea twice, the first in 1909 to protect American citizens in the Ottoman Empire, and the second during World War I, again to protect still neutral American citizens in the region. After the United States entered the war in April 1917, North Carolina was used to escort Troop Ships off the eastern coast of the United States. Following the war in late 1918 and early 1919, she was used to carry soldiers from the American Expeditionary Force back from France. In 1920, the ship was renamed Charlotte so her original name could be used for a new Battleship, and she was decommissioned the following year. She was sold for scrap in September 1930 and broken up thereafter.
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS Montana pictured on May 4th 1912.
She was built at Newport News Drydock & Shipbuilding Co.; her keel was laid down in April 1905, she was launched in December 1906, and she was commissioned in July 1908. The final class of Armoured Cruisers to be built for the US Navy, Montana and her sisters were armed with a main battery of four 10-inch guns, and were capable of a top speed of 22 knots.
Montana spent her active duty career in the Atlantic Fleet. She made two cruises to the Mediterranean Sea to protect American citizens in the Ottoman Empire, the first in 1909 in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution and the second during the Balkan Wars in 1913. Montana was also involved in political unrest in Central American countries, sending landing parties ashore in Haiti and in Mexico during the Occupation of Veracruz, both in 1914.
After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Montana was tasked with convoy escort and Training Ship duties. With the end of the war in November 1918 came a new task, transporting American soldiers back from the battlefields of Europe. She made six round trips to France and carried back a total of 8,800 men. Montana was then transferred to the Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington State, where she was decommissioned and renamed Missoula. She remained in the reserve fleet until 1930, when she was stricken under the terms of the London Naval Treaty.She was eventually sold for scrap in 1935 and broken up.
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS Montana seen on May 4th 1912.
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS North Carolina pictured on October 12th 1912.
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The band plays a welcome for Troops returning from France aboard Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS Montana as she berths at New York City on March 29th 1919.
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I remember seeing the builder's model (?) in the state capitol building, circa 1966, during a weekend liberty with another Marine from the Army Radar School at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL........... :) DFO
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS Seattle pictured off Pipitea Wharf,Wellington,August 1925.
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS Montana pictured off Philadelphia Navy Yard during Founder's Day celebrations in 1908.
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Lead Ship,Armoured Cruiser USS Tennessee pictured fitting out at William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Yards at Philadelphia in early 1906...*Note her 6 inch/50 calibre Mk8 broadside secondary armament breech loaders are not yet fitted.
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Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser USS North Carolina pictured in Dry Dock No 3 at Norfolk Navy Yard on December 9th 1908.
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