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Protected Cruiser / PG-36 / CL- 23 Albany


Laid down at Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, England for Brazil; Purchased by US Navy, 16 March 1898; Launched, February 1899; Commissioned USS Albany, 29 May 1900; Decommissioned, 16 June 1904 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA; Recommissioned, 10 June 1907; Decommissioned, 4 December 1914 at Puget Sound Navy Yard; Recommissioned, 12 May 1916; Designated Gunboat PG-36, 17 July 1920; Redesignated Light Cruiser CL-23, 8 August 1921; Decommissioned, 10 October 1922 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 November 1929; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 11 February 1930.

Specifications: Displacement 3,340 t; Length 394' 5"; Beam 43' 9"; Draft 17' 6" (aft); Speed 20.5 kts; Complement 353; Armament six 6" guns, four 4.7" rifles, ten 6-pdrs, four 1-pdrs, four machine guns, two field pieces, 3 torpedo tubes.
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