USS Baltimore (C-3)

USS Baltimore
Baltimore in 1891
History
United States
NameBaltimore
NamesakeBaltimore, Maryland
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$1,546,172.13 (hull and machinery)
Yard number254
Laid down5 May 1887
Launched6 October 1888
Sponsored byMrs. Theodore D. Wilson, wife of Chief Constructor Wilson
Commissioned7 January 1890
Decommissioned15 September 1922
ReclassifiedCM-1
Stricken14 October 1937
Identification
FateScuttled, 22 September 1944
General characteristics
Displacement4,413 long tons (4,484 t)
Length336 ft (102 m)
Beam48 ft 6 in (14.78 m)
Draft20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 × screws
Speed19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement386 officers and men
Armament
Armor

The fourth USS Baltimore (C-3) (later CM-1) was a United States Navy cruiser, the fifth protected cruiser to be built by an American yard. Like the previous one, Charleston, the design was commissioned from the British company of W. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Company of Newcastle. Baltimore was an all-around improvement on Charleston, somewhat larger with more guns, thicker armor, and better machinery.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Gardiner and Chesneau, p. 151
  2. ^ Bauer and Roberts, p. 143
  3. ^ Friedman, pp. 25, 459