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IX-25 Reina Mercedes

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - India - Golf - Lima
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Unprotected Cruiser/Barracks Ship:
  • Laid down as Alfonso XII for the Spanish Navy at Cartagena, Spain
  • Launched, 12 September 1887
  • Captured as a war prize, 17 July 1898, at Santiago de Cuba, during the Spanish-American War
  • Salvaged 2 January 1899 to 1 March 1899
  • Converted to a Non-self Propelled Receiving Ship at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.
  • Placed in service in May 1905
  • Towed to Annapolis MD. in 1912 to serve as a Barracks Ship
  • Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified Reina Mercedes (IX-25), 17 July 1920
  • Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 6 September 1957
  • Final Disposition, sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD., for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,042 t.
    Length 292'
    Beam 43' 3"
    Draft 21' 11"(mean)
    Complement 91
    Armament (none)
    Propulsion (none).
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    Reina Mercedes 62k ex-Spanish Cruiser Reina Mercedes re-floated, refurbished and commissioned into the US Navy as USS Reina Mercedes, moored to a buoy, date and place unknown. .
    Reina Mercedes 92k Spanish Cruiser Reina Mercedes (1887-1898). photographed prior to 1898. She was scuttled at Santiago, Cuba, in July 1898. Later raised by the U.S. Navy, she served as an accommodation ship at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, until scrapped in 1957. Her sister ship, Reina Cristina, was the Spanish flagship in the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898, and was lost in that action. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy, 1941.
    US Navy photo # NH 61231 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Reina Mercedes 48k Spanish Cruiser Reina Mercedes sunk at Santiago de Cuba, photo circa 1898-1901 Haze Gray & Underway web site
    Reina Mercedes 35k Reina Mercedes(IX-25) Barracks/Accommodation Ship, Naval Station Annapolis MD Haze Gray & Underway web site
    Reina Mercedes 32k Reina Mercedes (IX-25) Barracks/Accommodation Ship, Naval Station Annapolis MD Gunter Krebs
    Reina Mercedes 39k Reina Mercedes (IX-25) Barracks/Accommodation Ship, Naval Station Annapolis MD, circa 1946
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Reina Mercedes 54k Reina Mercedes (IX-25), left, and Cumberland (IX-8), right, serving as Barracks/Accommodation Ships, Naval Station Annapolis MD., 1939. In the foreground is the Naval Academy sail training yacht, Alligator. Ric Hedman
    Reina Mercedes 59k Reina Mercedes (IX-25), left, and Cumberland (IX-8), right, serving as Barracks/Accommodation Ships, Naval Station Annapolis MD. In the foreground are the Naval Academy's sail training yachts, Alligator, Bullfrog, Crocodile and Turtle, circa 1939 Ric Hedman
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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