Denver 1900
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| C14, 7.1920- PG28, 8.1921- CL16 | Denver | Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia | 28.6.1900 | 21.6.1902 | 17.5.1904 | stricken 3.1931 | |
| C15, 7.1920- PG29, 8.1921- CL17 | Des Moines | 107 | Fore River, Quincy | 28.8.1900 | 20.9.1903 | 5.3.1904 | stricken 12.1929 |
| C16, 7.1920- PG30, 8.1921- CL18 | Chattanooga | Crescent, Elizabethport | 29.3.1900 | 7.3.1903 | 11.10.1904 | stricken 12.1929 | |
| C17, 7.1920- PG31, 8.1921- CL19 | Galveston | Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth | 19.1.1901 | 23.7.1903 | 15.2.1905 | stricken 11.1930 | |
| C18, 7.1920- PG32, 8.1921- CL20 | Tacoma | 71 | Union Iron Wks, San Francisco | 27.9.1900 | 2.6.1903 | 30.1.1904 | wrecked 16.1.1924 |
| C19, 7.1920- PG33, 8.1921- CL21 | Cleveland | 35 | Bath Iron Wks | 1.6.1900 | 28.9.1901 | 2.11.1903 | stricken 12.1929 |
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Displacement normal, t |
3200 |
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Displacement full, t |
3514 |
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Length, m |
94.1 |
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Breadth, m |
13.4 |
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Draught, m |
4.80 mean |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 6 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
4500 |
|
Max speed, kts |
16.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
C14, 16, 18, 19: coal 675 C15, 17: coal 700 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 6900(10) |
|
Armour, mm |
deck: 8 with 64 - 25mm slopes, casemates: 44 |
|
Armament |
10 x 1 - 127/50 Mk V, 8 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II, 2 x 1 - 37/50 Driggs-Schroeder heavy long Mk II |
|
Complement |
339 |
Project history: Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1899. Slow and weak ships on the lines of a larger Montgomery. 127mm guns were mounted with one fore and aft on the upper deck, and eight on the main deck in casemates, the hull being recessed to give better axial fire.
Ship protection: Thickness of deck slopes was 64mm amidships and 25mm at ship ends, flat was 8mm. Casemates had 44mm protection.
Modernizations: 1917-1918, all: - 2 x 1 - 127/50
Naval service: Tacoma was wrecked on reef off Vera Cruz 16.1.1924.
Cleveland 1904
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