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USS Colorado |
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USS Colorado A reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x 7" approx available. Order photograph here ? Walker Archive. Order Code PUC023 |
USS Colorado A reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x 7" approx available. Order photograph here ? Walker Archive. Order Code PUC024 |
USS Colorado CA7. (We would like to thank Wayne for
supplying the following text)
The second Colorado (CA-7) was launched 26 April 1903 by
William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Pennsylvania, Pa.-
sponsored by Miss C. M. Peabody, and commissioned 19 January 1905, Captain
D. Kennedy in command. ------------- ARMORED CRUISER "COLORADO" Length, 502 feet. Breadth, 69 feet 6 1/2 inches. Mean Draft, 24 feet 1 inch. Displacement, 13,680 tons. Speed, 22.24 knots. Bunker Capacity, 1,825 tons. Batteries: Main Battery, four 8 inch breech-loading rifles, fourteen 6-inch rapid fire guns. Secondary battery, eighteen 3-inch rapid fire guns, twelve 3-pounder semi-automatic guns, two 1-pounder rapid fire guns, two 3-inch field pieces, six automatic guns, caliber .30, two 18-inch submerged torpedo tubes. Armor: Belt, 6 inches; turrets, 6 1/2 inches; barbettes, 6 inches; deck, 4 inches. Complement: 41 officers, 850 men. Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Launched April 25, 1903. From "The Owl, December 17, 1900" vol 1 No.2" a school newspaper. NEW BATTLE SHIPS. The commonwealth of Colorado is to be represented in Uncle Sam's navy by two new cruisers, the Colorado and the Denver. The Colorado will be one of the six ordered by congress during its last session. Her sisters will be the California, The South Dakota, the Nebraska, the West Virginia and the Maryland. They will be the most up-to date fighting machines of their class and will be capable of attaining a speed of twenty-two knots an hour. Each cruiser will cost $4,250,000. The Denver is one of another six protected cruisers now undergoing construction in the ship yards at Philadelphia. Four of them are named after trans-Mississippi cities. They are besides the Denver, the Galveston, the Tocoma, the DesMoines, the Cleveland and the Chattanooga. These six are a type less than the Colorado and her companions, costing $1,080,000 and having a speed of seventeen knots per hour. The Denver is contracted to be completed sometime in June 1902. |
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