Baltimore in 1891
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United States | |
Name | Baltimore |
Namesake | Baltimore, Maryland |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Cost | $1,546,172.13 (hull and machinery) |
Yard number | 254 |
Laid down | 5 May 1887 |
Launched | 6 October 1888 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Theodore D. Wilson, wife of Chief Constructor Wilson |
Commissioned | 7 January 1890 |
Decommissioned | 15 September 1922 |
Reclassified | CM-1 |
Stricken | 14 October 1937 |
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Fate | Scuttled, 22 September 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 4,413 long tons (4,484 t) |
Length | 336 ft (102 m) |
Beam | 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × screws |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement | 386 officers and men |
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Armor |
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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]