USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Pennsylvania and USS Pittsburgh.
The second USS Pennsylvania (ACR/CA-4), also referred to as Armored Cruiser No. 4, and later renamed Pittsburgh, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class. She was originally assigned the name Nebraska but was renamed Pennsylvania on 7 March 1901.[3]
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Tinted postcard of USS Pennsylvania, from around 1905–1908. | |
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Ordered | 3 March 1899 |
Awarded | 10 January 1901 |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Cost | $3,890,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) |
Yard number | 317 |
Laid down | 7 August 1901 |
Launched | 22 August 1903 |
Sponsored by | Miss Coral Quay |
Commissioned | 9 March 1905 |
Decommissioned | 10 July 1931 |
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Reclassified | CA-4, 17 July 1920 |
Stricken | 26 October 1931 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 21 December 1931 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser |
Displacement | 13,680 long tons (13,900 t) (standard) |
Length | |
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 | 8 × Modified Niclausse boilers, 12 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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General characteristics (Pre-1921 Refit)[2] | |
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