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USS Colorado (ACR-7)
United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Colorado and USS Pueblo.
USS Colorado (ACR-7), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 7", and renamed USS Pueblo (CA-7) in 1916, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser. She was the second US Navy ship named Colorado, and the first to be named after the State of Colorado. The first, Colorado, was named for the Colorado River.[3]
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Ordered | 7 June 1900 |
Awarded | 10 January 1901 |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Cost | $3,780,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) |
Yard number | 316 |
Laid down | 25 April 1901 |
Launched | 25 April 1903 |
Sponsored by | Miss C. M. Peabody |
Commissioned | 19 January 1905 |
Decommissioned | 28 September 1927 |
Renamed | Pueblo, 9 September 1916 |
Reclassified | CA-7, 17 July 1920 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 2 October 1930 |
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Class and type | Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser |
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Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 1 in (7.34 m) (mean) |
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Complement | 80 officers 745 enlisted 64 Marines |
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General characteristics (Pre-1911 Refit)[1] | |
Installed power | 16 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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