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Revision as of 12:14, 18 November 2014

U.S.S. Atlanta (1884)
Builder: John Roach[1]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1883[2]
Laid down: 8 Nov, 1883[3]
Launched: 9 Oct, 1884[4]
Commissioned: 19 Jul, 1886[5]
Decommissioned: 23 Mar, 1912[6]
Sold: 10 Jun, 1912[7]

U.S.S. Atlanta was one of two Atlanta Class protected cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

She launched on 9 October 1884; sponsored by Miss Jessie Lincoln, the daughter of Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln and granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 19 July 1886.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 150.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 448.
  8. Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.

Bibliography


Atlanta Class Protected Cruiser
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