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Two St. Louis class auxiliary cruisers were International Navigation Company liners charted by the U.S. Navy in 1898 as Armed Merchant Cruisers.

Overview of two vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Commissioned	Fate
St. Louis	Cramp	12 Nov, 1894	22 Apr, 1898	24 Apr, 1898	Returned 2 Sep, 1898
St. Paul	Cramp	10 Apr, 1895	12 Mar, 1898	20 Apr, 1898	Returned 2 Sep, 1898

Straight stem and counter stern-type liners with two masts and two funnels.^[1]

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).
Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.

St. Louis Class Armed Merchant Cruiser

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