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USS CHARLESTON (C-2)

CLASS - CHARLESTON
Displacement 3,730 Tons, Dimensions, 320' (oa) x 46' x 21' 9" (Max)
Armament 2 x 8"/30, 6 x 6"/30, 4 x 6pdr, 2 x 3pdr, 2 x 1pdr.
Armor, 3" Shields, 3" Deck, 2" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 7,500 IHP; 2 Horizontal, Compound engines, 2 screws
Speed, 18 Knots, Crew 300.
Operational and Building Data
Launched by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA 19 JUL 1888
Commissioned 26 DEC 1889
Decommissioned 27 JUL 1896
Commissioned 05 MAY 1898
Fate: Grounded on an uncharted reef near Camiguin Island north of Luzon on 2 NOV 1899 and abandoned.
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For Full Size Image		 Size Image Description Contributed
By And/Or Copyright
Charleston 89k Painting of USS Charleston (C-2) D. Dunham
Charleston
c0206		 249k Stern view at Mare Island, circa 1890. Darryl Baker
Baltimore 90k

USS Charleston (C-2), at left, and USS Baltimore (C-3) at Tacoma, Washington, circa 1892.
Photographed by French, Tacoma. Donation of Captain R.R. Law, USN, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 75894

 USNHC
Charleston 59k Starboard side view, at anchor, 1895. Colin P. Varga
Charleston
c0214		 124k View of the main deck aboard USS Charleston (C-2) at Mare Island in 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0215		 110k Photo of one of USS Charleston's deck guns with a sailor showing a manual sewing machine at Mare Island in 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0216		 143k Group photo of USS Charleston's officers at Mare Island in 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0211		 286k Photos of installation of USS Charleston's aft gun mounts at Mare Island in March 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0213

169k

 Photos of installation of USS Charleston's aft gun mounts at Mare Island in March 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0210		 119k Night photo of the USS Charleston (C-2) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island in March 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0207		 146k Stern view of USS Charleston (C-2) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island in April 1898.

Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0208		 197k Bow view of USS Charleston (C-2) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island in April 1898. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0209		 175k Port bow view of USS Charleston (C-2) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island in April 1898. Photo taken from top of dry dock. Darryl Baker
Charleston
c0212		 219k Port bow view of USS Charleston (C-2) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island in April 1898. Photo taken from inside the dock. Darryl Baker
Charleston 99k

USS Charleston (C-2) Off Hong Kong in 1898, wearing grey "war paint".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

 Fred Weiss
Charleston 66k

USS Charleston (C-2) At Manila, Philippines, in 1898. She had convoyed the first U.S. troops to Manila in May-June of that year, capturing Guam while en route. Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

 Fred Weiss
MONTEREY
Monterey602		 48k

Monterey(BM-6) (center) and Charleston(C-2) (right) in Manila Bay, circa 1898-1899.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42516.

 Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS, 1967
USS CHARLESTON (C-2) 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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