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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Denver''''' was one of six [[Denver Class Cruiser (1901)|''Denver'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Denver''''' was one of six [[Denver Class Cruiser (1901)|''Denver'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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''Denver'' was launched on 21 June 1902 by [[Neafie & Levy]] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Miss R. W. Wright, daughter of the Mayor of Denver. She was commissioned on 17 May 1904, with Commander [[Joseph Ballard Murdock]] in command.
  
 
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Revision as of 19:16, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Denver (1902)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 14[1]
PG-28 (1920)[2]
CL-16 (8 August, 1921)[3]
Builder: Neafie & Levy[4]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1899[5]
Laid down: 8 Jun, 1900[6]
Launched: 21 Jun, 1902[7]
Commissioned: 17 May, 1904[8]
Decommissioned: 14 Feb, 1931[9]
Sold[10]: 13 Sep, 1933[11]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Denver was one of six Denver Class protected cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Denver was launched on 21 June 1902 by Neafie & Levy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Miss R. W. Wright, daughter of the Mayor of Denver. She was commissioned on 17 May 1904, with Commander Joseph Ballard Murdock in command.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 155.
  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. 449.

Bibliography


Denver Class Protected Cruiser
  Denver Des Moines Chattanooga  
  Galveston Tacoma Cleveland  
<– New Orleans Class Minor Cruisers (US) Chester Class –>