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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
  Atlanta Boston  
  Minor Cruisers (US) U.S.S. Chicago –>


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