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USS COLUMBIA (C 12/CA 16)

CLASS - COLUMBIA
Displacement 7,375 Tons, Dimensions, 413' 1" (oa) x 58' 2" x 25' 7" (Max)
Armament 1 x 8"/40, 2 x 6"/40, 8 x 4"/40 12 x 6pdr, 4 x 1pdr, 4 x 14" tt..
Armor, 4" Sheilds, 4" Deck, 5" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 21,000 IHP; 3 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 3 screws
Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 477.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 30 DEC 1890 by William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA
Launched 26 JUL 1892
Commissioned 23 APR 1894
Decommissioned 13 MAY 1897
Commissioned 15 MAR 1898
Decommissioned 31 MAR 1899
Commissioned 31 AUG 1902
Decommissioned 3 MAY 1907
Commissioned 22 JUN 1915
Reclassified on 17 JUL 1920 as CA 16
Decommissioned 29 JUN 1921
Renamed Old Columbia 17 NOV 1921
Stricken 26 JAN 1922
Fate: Sold 21 JUN 1922
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Columbia 25k Port side view, Undated USN
Columbia 25k Port bow view, Undated USN
Columbia 93k

USS Columbia (C 12) At anchor, during the 1890s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #55292 .

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Columbia
c1216		 157k USS Columbia (C 12) circa 1890’s.

Photo courtesy of the Detroit Publishing Company via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

 Bill Gonyo
Columbia 96k

USS Columbia (C 12) Running trials in 1893, before she received her guns.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #66297.
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Columbia 108k

USS Columbia (C 12) In icy water off Norfolk, Virginia, January 1895. Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #55289.

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Columbia 68k Starboard quarter view, 1895. Fred Weiss
Columbia 68k USS Columbia at League Island ca. 1895. Colin P. Varga - PAHRC
Columbia 118k

USS Columbia (C 12) Photograph taken in 1898 and printed on a stereograph card. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #82657 .

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Columbia 98k

USS Columbia (C 12) Photographed during the Spanish-American War, 1898. Courtesy of John S. Rowe.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #55286.

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Columbia 60k USS Columbia (C 12) Saluting during the naval review, off New York City, August 1898. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #55287. USNHC
Columbia 85k

USS Columbia (C 12) Laid up during the early 1900s. This photograph is printed on a stereograph card. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #82658.

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Columbia
c1217		 245k

USS Columbia (C 12) in Brooklyn Navy Yard ca. 1904.

Library of Congress, LC-D4-21836

 Mike Green
Columbia 116k

Burgess-Dunne AH-7 seaplane Flying just over the water off Pensacola, Florida, in March 1916. USS Columbia (C 12) is anchored in the right background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 2243.

 Fred Weiss
Columbia 127k

USS Columbia (C 12, later CA 16) Off Balboa, Panama, with other ships of the fleet, after World War I. Note the 13-star "boat" flag on the launch in the foreground, and 48-star flag flown by the ship.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #75370.

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Columbia 91k

USS Columbia (C 12) In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 1920.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #55293.

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Columbia 71k

USS Columbia (C 12, later CA 16) Off San Diego, California, circa 1919-1921. Donation of the International Aerospace Hall of Fame, San Diego, 1978.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #88497 .

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Columbia 68k

U.S. Navy warships awaiting scrapping, 1922 - Probably photographed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
USS Maine (BB 10) is at right, down at the head with her side armor removed. USS Wisconsin (BB 9) is in the center. USS Old Columbia, ex-Columbia (CA 16) is toward the left, with a merchant ship alongside. Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1986.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 100762 .

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Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Final Rank Dates
Sumner, G. W., CAPT   04/23/1894 -
Sands, James Hoban, CAPT RADM 04/1896 - 05/13/1897
Decommissioned   05/13/1897 - 03/15/1898
Moore, John Henry, LCDR   1898
Decommissioned   03/31/1899 - 08/31/1902
Snow, Albert Sidney, CAPT   1905
Bowyer, John Marshall, CDR RADM 07/10/1905 - 1906
Beatty, Frank Edmund, CDR RADM ~1906 - 05/03/1907
Decommissioned   05/03/1907 - 06/22/1915
McLean, Ridley, CAPT RADM 12/02/1916 - 05/1917
Upham, Frank Brooks, CDR RADM 05/1917 - 1918
Brinser, Harry Lerch, CAPT RADM 01/1919 - 10/1920
Hellweg, Julius Fred'k., CDR   10/1920 - 06/29/1921
Taussig, Joseph Knefler, CAPT VADM 07/12/1921

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

USS COLUMBIA (C 12/CA 16) 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
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