Baltimore 1890
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| C3, 7.1920- CM1 | Baltimore | 254 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 5.5.1887 | 6.10.1888 | 7.1.1890 | minelayer 1914, stricken 10.1937 |
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Displacement normal, t |
4413 |
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Displacement full, t |
5436 |
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Length, m |
102.1 |
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Breadth, m |
14.8 |
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Draught, m |
5.94 mean |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 HTE, 4 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
10750 |
|
Max speed, kts |
19 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 1144 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 5000(10) |
|
Armour, mm |
steel - deck: 64 with 102mm slopes, CT: 76 |
|
Armament |
4 x 1 - 203/31 Mk II, 6 x 1 - 152/30 Mk III, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/Driggs-Schroeder Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss Mk I |
|
Complement |
386 |
Project history: Authorized under the Act of 3.8.1886. Based on an Elswick design which was unsuccessful in the competition for the ill-fated Spanish cruiser Reina Regente. 203mm guns were arranged in sponsons at forecastle and poop and 152mm in sponsons at upper deck amidships.
Ship protection: Protective deck was 64mm at flat part with 102mm slopes amidships and CT 76mm had 76mm sides.
Modernizations: (1900-1903): - 4 x 1 - 203/31, 6 x 1 - 152/30; + 12 x 1 - 152/41 Mk VII, old boilers were replaced by 8 Babcock & Wilcox
(1913 - 1914, Charleston N Yd): cruiser was rebuilt as minelayer. Armament consisted of 8 x 1 -127/40 Mk III, 180 mines.
to 1919: - 8 x 1 - 127/40; + 4 x 1 - 127/51 Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 76/52 Mk X
Naval service: Baltimore was decommissioned in 1922 but sold for scrap only in February, 1942. She served as a receiving ship at Charleston in 1911-1912, and was converted to a minelayer at that yard in 1913— 1914. During the First World War Baltimore took part in laying the Northern Mine Barrage. Decommissioned at Pearl Harbor in 1922, Baltimore was not sold for 20 years. She was perhaps the best of the US Cruisers laid down in the 1880s.
Baltimore
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