&sq=&lang=&file=File:USSMontanaACR13.jpg) USS Montana (ACR-13), starboard view underway, 1919.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Montana |
| Namesake | State of Montana |
| Builder | Newport News Drydock & Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down | 29 April 1905 |
| Launched | 15 December 1906 |
| Commissioned | 21 July 1908 |
| Decommissioned | 2 February 1921 |
| Renamed | Missoula, 7 June 1920 |
| Stricken | 15 July 1930 |
| Fate | Sold 29 September 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Tennessee-class armored cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 504 ft 5 in (153.75 m) oa |
| Beam | 72 ft 10 in (22.20 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × Triple expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Complement | 914 |
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USS Montana (ACR-13/CA-13), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 13", later renamed Missoula and reclassified CA-13, was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. She was built by the Newport News Drydock & Shipbuilding Co.; her keel was laid down in April 1905, she was launched in December 1906, and she was commissioned in July 1908. The final class of armored cruisers to be built for the US Navy, Montana and her sisters were armed with a main battery of four 10-inch (254 mm) guns, and they were capable of a top speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph).
Montana spent her active duty career in the Atlantic Fleet. She made two cruises to the Mediterranean Sea to protect American citizens in the Ottoman Empire, the first in 1909 in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution and the second during the Balkan Wars in 1913. Montana was also involved in political unrest in Central American countries, sending landing parties ashore in Haiti and in Mexico during the Occupation of Veracruz, both in 1914.
After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Montana was tasked with convoy escort and training ship duties. With the end of the war in November 1918 came a new task, transporting American soldiers back from the battlefields of Europe. She made six round trips to France and carried back a total of 8,800 men. Montana was then transferred to the Puget Sound Naval Yard in Washington state, where she was decommissioned and renamed Missoula. She remained in the reserve fleet until 1930, when she was stricken under the terms of the London Naval Treaty. The ship was eventually sold for scrap in 1935 and broken up.