USS CHARLESTON (C 22/CA 19)

CLASS - ST. LOUIS
Displacement 9,700 Tons, Dimensions, 426' 6" (oa) x 66' x 25' 6" (Max)
Armament 14 x 6"/50, 18 x 3"/50
Armor, 4" Belt, 4" Shields, 3" Deck, 5" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 21,000 IHP; 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 22 Knots, Crew 670.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 30 JAN 1902 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA
Launched 23 January 1904
Commissioned 17 OCT 1905
Decommissioned 08 OCT 1910
Commissioned 14 SEPT 1912
Reclassified CA 19 17 JUL 1920
Decommissioned 04 DEC 1923
Fate: Sold for scrap on 06 MAR 1930 to General Salvage Company of Seattle, Washington in accordance with the London Naval Treaty.
Subsequently sold to the Powell River Co., British Columbia, Canada to be used as a breakwater.
More information can be found at http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/USS_Charleston.html.
(Fate information provided by Chris Vallery and David Chessum)

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
	144k	Port View, Undated.		USN
	49k	The Armored Cruiser Charleston on a Post Card copywritten 1906 by Enrique Muller, and published by Illustrated Postal Card Co., N.Y. & Germany. From the Collection of Charles Munson.		Charles Munson
c2205	211k	Stern view of USS Charleston (C 22) arriving at Mare Island on October 1, 1906.		Darryl Baker
c2206	213k	Stern view of USS Charleston (C 22) at her berth at Mare Island on November 7, 1906. Ship forward of Charleston is USS Boston and USS Wyoming (M 10) is in the channel passing astern of her.		Darryl Baker
c2210	254k	USS Charleston (C 22) preparing to enter dry dock #1 at Mare Island on November 20, 1906. U.S. Navy photo #760		Darryl Baker
c2211	276k	Stern view of USS Charleston (C 22) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island on November 21, 1906. U.S. Navy photo #763		Darryl Baker
c2212	544k	Bow view of USS Charleston (C 22) in dry dock #1 at Mare Island on November 21, 1906. (Photo cleaned up by Tom Kermen) U.S. Navy photo #764		Darryl Baker
c2207	158k	Stern view of USS Charleston (C 22) at her berth at Mare Island in December 1906. Ship forward of Charleston is USS Lawton and USS Relief is in the channel.		Darryl Baker
c2209	145k	USS Charleston (C 22) as she arrives at Mare Island in March 1908. The yard ferry launch Dart is seen at her berth in the lower right corner.		Darryl Baker
c2208	264k	Two cruiser in dry dock at Mare Island. USS Charleston (C 22), broadside in the photo, is in dry dock #1 and USS South Dakota (ACR 9) is in the new dry dock #2. USS South Dakota was the first ship to dock in dry dock #2 on March 14, 1908.		Darryl Baker
c2213	743k	Charleston in Drydock #1, Balboa, Canal Zone 8 Sept 1916. Photo by Ernest Hallen, from the digital collection of Ron Armstrong.		Michael Mohl
	99k	Starboard quarter view at anchor sometime during WWI, From the Collection of Bert D. Blackmon, Sr.		Bert D. Blackmon III
c2204	86k	Ships bell, currently on display at Patriot's Point Museum, Charleston, SC.		Robert Hall

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