Olympia 1898
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| C6, 7.1920- CA15, 8.1921- CL15 | Olympia | 17 | Union Iron Wks, San Francisco | 17.6.1891 | 5.11.1892 | 5.2.1895 | miscellaneous auxiliary 6.1931 |
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Displacement normal, t |
5865 |
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Displacement full, t |
6558 |
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Length, m |
104.9 |
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Breadth, m |
16.2 |
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Draught, m |
6.55 mean |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
13500 |
|
Max speed, kts |
20 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 1093 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 13000(10) |
|
Armour, mm |
nickel steel - deck: 51 with 121 (amidships)-76mm (ship ends) slopes, engines glacises: 102, turrets: 89 (Harvey steel), barbettes: 114, shields: 102, ammunition tubes: 76, CT: 127 |
|
Armament |
2 x 2 - 203/37 Mk III, 10 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II, 14 x 1 - 57/45-50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 6 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 6 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern) |
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Complement |
447 |
Project history: Authorized under the Act of 7.9.1888. Protected cruiser with heavy guns.
Ship protection: In this ship the 203mm guns were in fore and aft twin turrets protected by 89mm Harvey with 114mm nickel steel barbettes and 76mm ammunition Tubes. 127mm guns to port and starboard amidships in the superstructure had 102mm shields, the CT 127mm and the protective deck was 51mm on the flat with the slopes 121mm amidships and 76mm at the ends. Engines cylinders were protected by a 102mm glacis.
Modernizations: 1900: - 6 - 450 TT
1918: - 2 x 2 - 203/35, 10 x 1 - 127/40, 14 x 1 - 57/45-50, 6 x 1 - 37/40; + 10 x 1 - 127/51 Mk VIII
Naval service: Olympia was an accommodation ship at Charleston from 1912-1916, but was on active service during the First World War, and finally decommissioned 9.12.1922, being reclassified as IX40 in 1931. She was stricken in 1957 and preserved as museum ship at Philadelphia.
Olympia 1904
© Ivan Gogin, 2014