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Revision as of 11:57, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. San Francisco (1889)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 5[1]
CM-2 (1916)[2]
Builder: Union Iron Works[3]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1887[4]
Laid down: 14 August, 1888[5]
Launched: 26 October, 1889[6]
Commissioned: 15 November, 1890[7]
Decommissioned: 24 December, 1921[8]
Stricken: 8 June, 1937[9]
Sold: 20 April, 1939[10]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. San Francisco was a protected cruiser completed for the U.S. Navy in 1890.

Construction

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

[11]

  • twelve 6-inch/30 caliber
  • four 6-pounders
  • four 3-pounders
  • two 1-pounders
  • three 37mm Hotchkiss revolvers
  • four Gatling guns
  • six 14-inch torpedo tubes

1903

[12]

  • twelve 6-inch/30 caliber
  • ten 6-pounders

1910

[13][14]

  • eight 5-inch/40 caliber
  • ten 6-pounders
  • four 1-pounders

1918

[15]

  • four 5-inch/51 caliber
  • Mines

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 152.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  8. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  9. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  10. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  11. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 460.
  12. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 26.
  13. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 152.
  14. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 26.
  15. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 152.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


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