Armoured Cruisers

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Pennsylvania Class Armoured Cruiser USS South Dakota pictured as she enters Dry Dock No 2 at Mare Island Navy Yard on March 14th 1910.
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Lead Ship,Armoured Cruiser USS Pennsylvania pictured with Protected Cruiser USS Charleston at Puget Sound in 1911.
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Lead Ship,Armoured Cruiser USS Pennsylvania pictured with Protected Cruiser USS Charleston at Puget Sound in 1911.
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Here is a view of the SOUTH DAKOTA at Vladivostok, 1919. DFO
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Admiral Caperton's Cruiser Squadron,Pennsylvania Class Armoured Cruisers USS Pittsburgh,Frederick,Pueblo and USS South Dakota pictured at Montevideo in September 1917.
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BIG ships that fortunately weren't "proved" in battle. Against any of the German battle cruisers they would have fared as well as the RN armored cruisers at Coronel....... :( Their underwater "protection" was certainly shown to be lacking by a mine off Long Island in WW1.

The SAN DIEGO fell victim, and became the largest USN warship to be sunk by the Kaiser's Navy'. I fail to see what the escort of a convoy by a LARGE inviting target like a armored cruiser could do? It would seem, in retrospect, that she simply was another vessel that needed escort by USN DESTROYERS!

"During the war, the ship, commissioned as the USS California in 1907 and renamed San Diego in 1914, had served as flagship for Rear Adm. William F. Fullam, the Patrol Force U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, according to NHHC. In July 1918, San Diego began a new assignment with the Atlantic Fleet to escort convoys crossing the submarine-infested waters of the North Atlantic. Christy, an 1891 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, continued to serve in the fleet and retired as a vice admiral in 1950, six months before his death". :) DFO
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Pennsylvania Class Armoured Cruiser USS Frederick (Ex USS Maryland) pictured at Montevideo in September 1917.
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Armoured Cruiser USS Brooklyn pictured c1900.
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Armoured Cruiser USS Brooklyn pictured in 1897.
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New York Class Armoured Cruiser USS Saratoga (Re-named Rochester December 1st 1917), pictured at Shanghai in 1911.
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