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Don Juan de Austria

Call sign (1912):
Nan - Easy - Rush

Don Juan de Austria served both the U. S. Navy and the Michigan Naval Militia

Infanta Isabel Class Spanish Cruiser/Gunboat:

Built in 1887 at Cartagena, Spain for the Spanish Navy

Sunk 1 May 1898 during the Battle of Manila Bay but was raised and refitted at Hong Kong

Commissioned 11 April 1900

Decommissioned for repairs 5 May 1904 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME

Recommissioned 10 December 1905

Decommissioned 7 March 1907 at Portsmouth Navy Yard

Loaned to the Michigan Naval Militia 28 July 1907

Recommissioned 6 April 1917

Decommissioned 18 June 1919

Sold 16 October 1919

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,015 t.

Length 215' 6"

Beam 32'

Draft 12' 6"

Speed 12 kts.

Complement 153

Armament: Two 4" mounts, eight rapid fire 6-pounders and two rapid fire 1-pounders

1905 - Added four-4" mounts, removed four 6-pounders/both 1-pounders and added four .30 cal. machine guns

1911 - Two 4"/40 rapid fire mounts, eight 6-pounder rapid fire mounts, two 1-pounder rapid fire mounts and added two temporary 3-pounders

Propulsion: Four straight-away cylinderical boilers, one 941ihp horizontal compound engine, one shaft.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Spanish Cruiser Don Juan de Austria
	54k	Namesake: *Juan de Austria, also called Don Juan de Austria, English Don John of Austria*, (born February 24, 1547, Regensburg [Germany]—died October 1, 1578, Bouges, near Namur, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium]), illegitimate son of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and half brother of King Philip II of Spain who, as a Spanish military commander, achieved victory over the Turks in the historic naval Battle of Lepanto	Tommy Trampp
	104k	Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria photographed in U.S. waters, with the steamer Angler in the background, circa the 1880s or 1890s Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 46866	Robert Hurst
USS Don Juan de Austria
	118k	Naval Institute Archives photo	U.S. Naval Institute
	145k	c. 1900 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 54545	Robert Hurst
	247k	c. 1900 Philippine Islands Inset shows one of the ship's boats Courtesy of Captain R. E. Pope, USN (Ret.) Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 54546
	110k	c. Early 1900s Courtesy of D.M. McPherson, 1976 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84671
	426k	Officers of USS Don Juan de Austria taken while at Canton, China, circa September 1900. Officers listed are numbered as follows: 1. Lieutenant Junior Grade John D. Barber, Asst. Paymaster, USN; 2. Naval Cadet Allen Buchanan, USN; 3. Lieutenant John L. Purcell, USN; 4. Ensign William L. Littlefield, USN; 5. Naval Cadet Ralph E. Pope, USN; 6. Lieutenant Henry B. Price, USN; 7. Commander Thomas C. McLean, USN, CO; 8. Lieutenant Harold A. Haas, Asst. Surgeon, USN; and 9. Lieutenant Armistead Rust, USN Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 104885	Robert Hurst Photo added 15 July 2021
	106k	Philippines Photo from the 7 May 1904 edition of the Army and Navy Register	Ron Reeves
	484k	Tinted postcard scene in the wardroom with officers reading circa 1906 Photo says "copyright by Enrique Muller Courtesy of Captain Ralph C. McCoy, 1974 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 82781-KN	Robert Hurst Photo added 15 July 2021
	262k	c. 1907 Group photo of the ship's officers and crew. The officer at the extreme lower right is Ensign William F. Halsey [father of future Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., USN] Courtesy of the U. S. Naval Academy Museum Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 54547	Robert Hurst
Training Ship Don Juan de Austria
	165k	Post card published by A.C. Dietsche of Detroit, Michigan post marked 15 July 1909 Detroit, MI and 16 July 1909 Roseville, MI	Tommy Trampp
	434k	Post card dated 1911	Tommy Trampp
	174k	c. 1913 Don Juan de Austria during the Perry centennial Naval parade, possibly at Erie, Pennsylvania Courtesy of Rear Admiral Denys W. Knoll, USN, Ret., Erie, Pennsylvania Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 75676	Mike Green
	62k	Photo probably taken while serving with the Michigan State Naval Militia Photos from Jane's Fighting Ships 1914	Robert Hurst
	127k	c. 1907/1917 Detroit Photographic Co. photo from the Library of Congress (LC-D4-22564)	Mike Green
	129k	Don Juan de Austria (on the right) is seen looking up river from the Belle Isle Bridge in Detroit, Michigan during the Parke Davis Excursion.sometime between July 1907 and April 1917 Library of Congress photo LC-D4-39089	Mike Green
USS Don Juan de Austria
	118k	7 March 1918 Walfrid V. Elson, Yeoman 2c, crewmember in Don Juan de Austria from Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan	Paul Petosky

Commanding Officers
01	CDR Thomas C. McLean, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral	11 April 1900 - 28 May 1901
02	CDR C. G. Bowman, USN	28 May 1901
03	CDR Jacob F. Lewis, USNRF	1918
04	LT William E. McNelley, USNRF	1918 - 1919

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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