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35k | Port side, Undated. | USN | |
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28k | Port side, Undated. (dark) | USN | |
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31k | Stern View showing stern guns. | USN | |
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34k | Port Side, Undated. | USN | |
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90k | Starboard side view at anchor, date and location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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444k | Port side view while at anchor, date and location unknown. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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349k | Colorized postcard, date and location unknown. | Arnold Putnam | |
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120k
92k |
Stereoview of a sailor pointing out damage sustained during the Battle of Santiago. | Tommy Trampp | ||
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231k |
Stern view of the USS Brooklyn (ACR 3) in League Island Navy Yard dry dock sometime between 1896 and 1901. Library of Congress, LC-D4-20178 |
Mike Green | |
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444k |
Starboard bow view while at anchor in 1898, location unknown. Library of Congress photograph #LC-USZ62-71302 |
Tom Kermen | |
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56k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) At the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY, 1898. Photographed by Enrique Muller. Collection of the New York Naval Shipyard. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 91960. |
USNHC | |
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70k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) In New York Harbor during the Spanish-American War victory naval parade, August 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63096. |
USNHC | |
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64k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) In New York Harbor during the victory fleet review, August 1898. USS New York (CA 2) is in the left background. The original photograph was copyright by George P. Hall & Son, New York, 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 61500. |
USNHC | |
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50k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) Returns to the U.S. from Cuban Waters, August 1898. Her crewmen are waving to the photographer. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York, 1898. Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100345. |
USNHC | |
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51k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) Steaming in the New York naval parade, August 1898, upon the return of the fleet from Cuban waters. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card by the American Stereoscopic Company, copyrighted by R.Y. Young, 1899. Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100290-A. |
USNHC | |
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95k |
Starboard bow view most likely off New York City during the victory fleet review, August 1898. "Photoprint copyrighted by Charles E. Bolles. No. 977." REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington,
D.C. 20540 USA |
Tom Kermen | |
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693k | News article "The Brooklyn's War Lessons" from the Salt Lake Herald, 28 August 1898. | Michael Mohl | |
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29k | Starboard bow view, 1898 | USN | |
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212k |
Berth deck cooks aboard cruiser U.S.S. Brooklyn, 1899. Library of Congress |
Dick Carter | |
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58k |
USS Brooklyn (CA 3) In drydock at the New York Navy Yard, 1898, with men working over her side. Note rudder and starboard propeller. Original photograph was copyright 1899 by R.Y. Young. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, Corte Madera, CA, 1971. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 73613. |
USNHC | |
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207k | Photo caption: "The Boatswain, and battle-scarred Capstan, - Admiral Schley's Flagship "Brooklyn." Dated 1899 | Tommy Trampp | |
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201k | Starboard Side, 1899. Image # (19-A-25-15) | National Archives | |
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249k | Bar Harbor, Maine, 6-13 August 1899. From the collection of Raymond Strout. | Jonathan Eno | |
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USS Brooklyn (CA 3) Sailors and Marines on the cruiser's forecastle, with mascot goat, 1898. Note details of pilothouse and bridge, improvised gunport shields on her forward 8" gun turret, and very odd "flathat" worn by one sailor. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card, copyright by C.L. Wasson, 1899. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(Ret), 1982. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93704. |
USNHC | |
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148k | Port bow view while in New York Harbor, copyright by Enrique Muller, 1901 and published by The Rotograph Company of New York. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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201k | USS Brooklyn (ACR 3) at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, during the American Marines mobilization to go to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revolution. | Library of Congress | |
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132k |
USS Brooklyn (ACR 3) at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, during the American Marines mobilization to go to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revolution. |
Library of Congress | |
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118k | USS Brooklyn (ACR 3) at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, during the American Marines mobilization to go to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revolution. | Library of Congress | |
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127k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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91k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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81k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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180k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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121k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Caption says "Coaling ship, Starboard lighter" From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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146k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Another Coaling view. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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112k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Gunnery practice. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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119k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Gunnery practice. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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114k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Target sleds being positioned. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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146k | WWI era photos, most likely from Asiatic station. Gunnery practice Observes. From the collection of Roy H Williams. | Roy Williams | |
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2.5m | Photo of Brooklyn in Mare Island's dry dock #2 7 October 1920. The stern of Vigilant (YT 25) can be seen forward of the cruiser. | Darryl Baker | |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank | Final Rank | Dates |
| Cook, Francis Augustus, CAPT | RADM | 12/01/1896 - 04/1899 |
| Thomas, Charles Mitchell, CAPT | 12/13/1899 | |
| Todd, CAPT | 11/23/1901 | |
| Nazro, Arthus Phillips, CAPT | 10/11/1905 | |
| Decommissioned | 05/16/1906 -04/12/1907 | |
| Decommissioned | 12/21/1907 - 05/02/1914 | |
| Christy, Harley Hannibal, CDR | VADM | 03/02/1914 ~ 12/1914 |
| Robertson, Ashley Herman, CAPT | VADM | 01/1915 - 12/1915 |
| Day, George Calvin, CDR | RADM | 12/1914 - 1916 |
| Knox, Dudley Wright, CDR | COMO | 03/1920 - 03/09/1921 |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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