USS Atlanta in 1891
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Atlanta |
Namesake | Atlanta, Georgia |
Ordered | 3 March 1883 |
Laid down | 8 November 1883 |
Launched | 9 October 1884 |
Sponsored by | Jessie Lincoln |
Commissioned | 19 July 1886 |
Decommissioned | September 1895 |
Recommissioned | 15 September 1900 |
Decommissioned | 23 March 1912 |
Stricken | 24 April 1912 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 10 June 1912 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Protected cruiser |
Displacement | 3,189 long tons (3,240 t) |
Length | 283 ft 0 in (86.26 m) |
Beam | 42 ft 2 in (12.85 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.3 kn (18.8 mph; 30.2 km/h) on trials, 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) designed |
Range | 3,390 nmi (6,280 km; 3,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 284 |
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Notes | One of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships |
USS Atlanta was a protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Boston as the Atlanta class, in others as the Boston class.
Atlanta was laid down on 8 November 1883 at Chester, Pennsylvania by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works; 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, Captain Francis M. Bunce in command.[1]