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USS NORTH CAROLINA - CHARLOTTE (ACR 12)

CLASS - TENNESSEE
Displacement 14,500 Tons, Dimensions, 504' 5" (oa) x 72' 11" x 27' 2" (Max)
Armament 4 x 10"/40, 16 x 6"/50 22 x 3"/50, 12 x 3pdr, 2 x 1pdr, 4 x 21" tt.
Armor, 5" Belt, 9" Turrets, 4" Deck, 9" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 23,000 IHP; 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 22 Knots, Crew 859.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 01 March 1905 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA
Launched 06 OCT 1906
Commissioned 07 May 1908
Decommissioned 18 FEB 1921
Stricken 15 JUL 1930
Fate: Sold for scrap 29 SEP 1930

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Charlotte 103k Starboard bow view while underway, Undated. USN
Charlotte
acr1206
184k Starboard bow view while underway, date and location unknown. Mike Hughes
Charlotte
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Charlotte
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330k

Colorized postcard of North Carolina, date and location unknown.

Published by the Valentine - Souvenir Co., New York

Tommy Trampp
Charlotte
acr1204
106k

Starboard side view off Camden NJ, OCT 1908. Note the ship's name in large lighted letters above the bridge.

USNHC Photo #44882

USNHC
Charlotte
acr1207
48k Port visit to Southwest Harbor, Maine 16 -22 August 1910
Postcard Photo from the collection of Raymond Strout
Jonathan Eno
Charlotte
acr1205
221k USS North Carolina (ACR-12) at anchor while launching a Curtiss Model F from the fixed catapult on the afterdeck, on 12 July 1916. George Gormly
Charlotte 114k Port View underway, 1919. Larry Bonn
Missoula
acr1303
50k Missoula (center) with her sister ships Huron and Charlotte at Puget Sound Navy Yard sometime between 1927 and 1930, when they wers sold for scrap in accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament. Tom

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Final Rank Dates
Marshall, William A., CAPT   07.05/07/1908 -
Boush, Clifford J., CAPT   05/15/1909
Marsh, Charles Carlton, CAPT   06/19/1911
Hines, John. Fore, CAPT   ~1912
Tarrant, William Theodore, LCDR RADM ~1916
Hellweg, Julius Frederick, CAPT RADM 10/1920 - 02/18/1921

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS NORTH CAROLINA - CHARLOTTE (ACR 12) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable To This Ship

Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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