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USS Birmingham (CL-2)
Chester-class scout cruiser of the US Navy, in service from 1908 to 1923 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Birmingham.
USS Birmingham (CS-2/CL-2), named for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, was a Chester-class scout cruiser, reclassified a light cruiser in 1920. Entering service in 1908, the ship became known for the first airplane takeoff from a ship in history in 1910. During World War I, Birmingham escorted convoys across the Atlantic. The cruiser was decommissioned in 1923 and sold for scrap in 1930.
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Name | Birmingham |
Namesake | City of Birmingham, Alabama |
Ordered | 27 April 1904 |
Awarded | 17 May 1905 |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Point, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Cost | $1,566,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) |
Laid down | 14 August 1905 |
Launched | 29 May 1907 |
Sponsored by | Miss Mary Campbell |
Commissioned | 11 April 1908 |
Decommissioned | 1 December 1923 |
Reclassified | CL-2, 17 July 1920 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 13 May 1930 |
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Class and type | Chester-class Scout cruiser |
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Beam | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
Draft | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) (mean) |
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Complement | 42 officers 330 enlisted |
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General characteristics (1921)[2][3] | |
Complement | 64 officers 332 enlisted |
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