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CRUISER NUMBER 1l She Glided Off the Ways at 11 o'Clock To-Day.
CHRISTENED THE MARBLEHEAD.
It Was & Married Woman and Not a Mald Who Broke the Wine Bottle Upon the Prow and Gave the Ship its Name
The Marblehead was sponsored by Mrs. C. F. Allen. I would like to think it's a typo and it should be Mrs. C. H. Allen, her husband being Charles H. Allen,, (because it's add life to this work), and makes sense because Mr. Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Works which built Marblehead was building this as his last ship & was closing down.
C. H. Allen was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, serving March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. In 1884, he received the title "Colonel," when Governor George Dexter Robinson appointed him to his personal staff. Governor Robinson..... after leaving office, his most famous legal client was Lizzie Borden, notoriously accused of killing her father and stepmother. She was acquitted in a highly sensationalized trial.
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Image and text provided by Rhode Island Digital Newspaper Project.
Photo from The Providence News. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 11 August 1892, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA.
Photo from Pittsburg Dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 12 August 1892, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Marblehead, ready to launch on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04182 |
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Guests arriving for Marblehead's launching on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04182 |
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Marblehead sliding down the ways on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04184 |
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Marblehead just launched.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04183 |
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Comdr. Charles O'Neil was in command of the Marblehead as her first Captain.
A turn of the century portrait photograph taken while he served as Rear Admiral, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, from 1 June 1897 to 14 March 1904.
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Cold day in New England for the sailors of the Marblehead as they work raising the anchor (I guess).
Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
Series: The Child Collection of Photographs (Bureau of Ships) Documenting U.S. Naval Vessels
National Archives Identifier: 353696686
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Marblehead after sliding down the ways. |
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Port quarter view at anchor, location and date unknown.. |
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Port side view, date and location unknown. Note what appears
to be laundry hanging from the forward mast, drying. |
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USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) In an icy harbor, circa 1894-99.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46636.
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USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) "Stripped for battle" in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, circa June-July 1898. Donation of Capt. Dudley W. Knox, 1926,
from the McCalla collection.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 47159.
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USS Marblehead in Guantanamo Bay during the Spanish American War in 1898. |
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The USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) is in the rear of Mare Island's dry
dock #1 with the out of commission Torpedo Boats USS Fox (TB 13)
and USS Davis (TB 12) forward of the cruiser. The ship in the
background to the left appears to be a revenue cutter with a tug outboard
of her.
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USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) in the Mare Island channel
a month after her recommissioning in December 1902. |
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Ships in the Mare Island channel circa 1905 in the foreground are USS
Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) with two stacks and the Gunboat USS
Alert with one stack and in the background are USS
Bennington (1 stack and 3 masts) and USS
Cincinnati (Cruiser No. 7) (2 masts and 2 stacks) .
U.S. Navy photo #C 11 001-1905
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USS Jupiter
(AC 3) fitting out at Mare Island Navy Yard, with Marblehead
(Cruiser No. 11) alongside, circa 16-17 March 1913.
Photo from "U.S. Warships of World War One", with permission of the
author Paul H. Silverstone
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Starboard bow view while at anchor at Mare Island 13 March 1916. Courtesy
of Thomas P. Naughton.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92170.
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Broadside view of USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) believed to be off Mare
Island circa 1916-17.
U.S. Navy Photo #C 11 1902
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Starboard side view of USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) in the Mare Island
channel on 11 August 1917.
U.S. Navy Photo #C 11 3518-8-1917
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Class |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| O'Neal, Charles, CDR |
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04/02/1894 - ~1896 |
| Jewell, Theodore Frelinghuysen, CDR |
1865 |
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03/12/1896 - |
| McCalla, Bowman Hendry, CDR |
1896 |
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09/11/1897 - 10/15/1898 |
|
Mead, William Whitman, CDR |
1896 |
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10/15/1898 - 04/23/1899 |
| Colby, Harrison Gray Otis, CDR |
1867 |
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04/23/1899 |
| Decommissioned |
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04/30/1900 - 11/10/1902 |
| Phelps Jr., Thomas Stowell, CDR |
1869 |
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11/10/1902 - |
| Scott, Bernard Orme, CDR |
1874 |
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07/09/1904 - 10/15/1904 |
| Young, Lucien, CDR |
1873 |
RADM |
10/15/1904 - 11/10/1905 |
| Mulligan, Richard Thomas, CDR |
1876 |
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11/10/1905 - 10/01/1906 |
| Decommissioned |
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10/01/1906 - 04/06/1917 |
| Barthalow, Benjamin Grady, LTJG |
1900 |
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07/22/1911 |
| Scranton, Edison Ernest, LT |
1900 |
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01/01/1912 |
| Tomb, William Victor, LCDR |
1900 |
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05/10/1913 |
| Lang, Charles Jonas, CDR |
1893 |
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04/06/1917 - 05/18/1917 |
| Huff, Charles Peabody, CDR |
1900 |
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05/18/1917 |
| Tarrant, William Theodore, CAPT |
1898 |
RADM |
06/03/1919 - 08/21/1919 |
