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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Columbia''''' was one of two [[Columbia Class Cruiser (1892)|''Columbia'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Columbia''''' was one of two [[Columbia Class Cruiser (1892)|''Columbia'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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She was launched 26 July 1892 by [[William Cramp & Sons]]; sponsored by Miss H. Morton.
  
 
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==See Also==
 
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Revision as of 18:50, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Columbia (1892)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 12[1]
Builder: Cramp[2]
Ordered: Act of 30 June, 1890[3]
Laid down: 30 Dec, 1890[4]
Launched: 26 Jul, 1892[5]
Commissioned: 23 Apr, 1894[6]
Decommissioned: 29 Jun, 1921[7]
Sold: 26 Jan, 1922[8]
Fate: Broken up

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

She was launched 26 July 1892 by William Cramp & Sons; sponsored by Miss H. Morton.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 154.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  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.

Bibliography


Columbia Class Protected Cruiser
  Columbia Minneapolis  
<– Cincinnati Class Minor Cruisers (US) U.S.S. Olympia –>