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USS NEW ORLEANS (Protected Cruiser/PG 34/CL 22)

Displacement 3,769 Tons, Dimensions, 354' 5" (oa) x 43' 9" x 19' 1" (Max)
Armament 6 x 6"/50 4 x 4.7"/50, 10 x 6pdr, 8 x 1pdr, 3 x 18" tt..
Armor, 4" Shields, 3 1/2" Deck, 4" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 7,500 IHP; 2 vertical, inverted triple expansion engines, 2 screws
Speed, 20 Knots, Crew 365.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid as AMAZONAS for the Brazilian Navy in 1895 by Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Launched 04 DEC 1896
Obtained by the US Navy on 16 MAR 1898
Commissioned 18 MAR 1898
Decommissioned 06 FEB 1905
Commissioned 15 NOV 1909
Reclassified CL 22 on 08 AUG 1921
Decommissioned 01 NOV 1929
Stricken 13 NOV 1929
Fate: Sold for scrap 11 FEB 1930

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New Orleans 18k Small Image, Starboard view. USN
New Orleans 44k Port bow view, date unknown. USN
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32k Port bow view, date and location unknown. Roel Bakels
New Orleans 62k

USS New Orleans Docked at the New York Navy Yard, April 1898, immediately after her maiden voyage from England. The receiving ship USS Vermont is at left. Note New Orleans' extra-long commissioning pennant.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 75495 .

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New Orleans
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220k Stern view of the protected cruiser USS New Orleans at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898 shortly after commissioning

Library of Congress, LC-D4-20077

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New Orleans
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220k Port bow view of the protected cruiser USS New Orleans leaving Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898 for the Spanish American War.

Library of Congress, LC-D4-20078

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New Orleans 62k

USS New Orleans Photographed circa March-April 1898, possibly in a British port prior to her departure for the United States. Note rowing craft in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45112.

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New Orleans 62k

USS New Orleans Photographed during the Spanish-American War, 1898.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45115.

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New Orleans 55k

USS New Orleans Halftone photograph, taken during the Spanish-American War and published in the book War in Cuba, 1898. Courtesy of Alfred Cellier, 1977.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 85648.

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New Orleans 53k

USS New Orleans Dressed with flags, 1898. Note this British-built cruiser's elaborate stern decoration, and the civilian rowboat in foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45116.

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New Orleans
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172k USS New Orleans in New York Harbor, copyright by Enrique Muller, October 1899 and published by The Rotograph Company of New York. Robert M. Cieri
New Orleans
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Port bow view of the protected cruiser U.S.S. New Orleans underway between 1900 and 1901 at an unknown location.

Library of Congress, LC-D4-20072

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Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Final Rank Dates
Nazro, Arthur Phillips, LCDR   03/18/1898
Longnecker, Edwin, CAPT   ~1898
Folger, William Mayhew, CAPT   04/1898 - 1899
Decommissioned   02/06/1905 - 11/15/1909
Ingersoll, Royal Rodney, CAPT   1905 - 1906
Miller, William Gardner, CDR   10/25/1910 - 1911
Owens, Charles Truesdale, CAPT   05/29/1920

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


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USS NEW ORLEANS (Protected Cruiser/PG 34/CL 22) 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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Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.
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