USS Atlanta (1884)

USS Atlanta in 1891
History
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)
Installed power	8 × boilers 1 × horizontal compound engine 3,500 ihp (2,600 kW)
Propulsion	Sails (as built) 1 × shaft
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
Armament	2 × 8-inch (203 mm)/30 caliber Mark 1 guns 6 × 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 2 guns 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 2 × .45 caliber (11.4 mm) Gatling guns
Armor	Barbettes: 2 in (51 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Conning tower: 2 in (51 mm)
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]