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214k | Stern view while in drydock on 18 February 1908. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18469 |
Mike Green | |
 0400110 |
161k | Starboard side view while underway, probably during builders trials, 28 February 1908. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18489 |
Mike Green | |
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166k | Port bow view while underway, probably during builders trials, 28 February 1908. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18486 |
Mike Green | |
 0400105 |
224k | Starboard side view while moored at Bath Iron Works, Bath ME, 2 March 1908 (just prior to her commissioning). | Robert M. Cieri | |
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86k | Port view underway, Undated. | Phil Paone | |
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122k | Port view underway, Undated. Fairly good details. | USN | |
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106k | Starboard view underway passing the US Naval Prison at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. The ship is heading eastward in the Piscataqua River and is about a mile upriver from passing between Fort Foster in Kittery and Fort Constitution in New Castle, New Hampshire., Undated. Fairly good details. (caption updated by Mike Pedersen) | USN | |
 0400109 |
USS Chester (Scout Cruiser #1) Underway while running trials, circa 1908. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #NH 61700. |
Robert Hurst | ||
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155k | Port view underway. 1908. | Tom Daly | |
 0400106 |
156k | USS Chester (CL 1) underway in New York Harbor on 14 February 1909. Source: Imperial War Museum, American First World War Official Exchange Commission, Photo No. IWM (Q 68551) |
Mike Green | |
 0400107 |
1.6m | Anchored in Barcelona, Spain, June 1915. | Jaume Cifre Sanchez | |
 0400108 |
157k | Bringing a paravane aboard the USS Chester in 1918. Photo by Lt Harold B. Phelps Sr., Radioman aboard USS Chester. |
Robert Hurst | |
 0400113 |
75k | April 1918, location unknown.. National Archives item #165-WW-335D-5 |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank | Class | Final Rank | Dates |
| Wilson, Henry Braid, CDR | 1881 | ADM | 04/25/1908 - |
| Shoemaker, William Rawle, CDR | 1884 | RADM | 12/02/1909 - 07/22/1910 |
| Decker, Benton Clark, CDR | 1887 | 07/22/1910 | |
| Decommissioned | 12/15/1911 - 11/05/1913 | ||
| McCauley Jr., Edward, LCDR | 12/03/1912 | ||
| Trurnbull, Archibald Douglas, LTJG (temporary) | 1907 | 11/02/1913 - 11/05/1913 | |
| Moffett, William Adger, CAPT | 1890 | ADM | 11/05/1913 - 09/15/1914 |
| Blakely, John Russell Young, CDR | 1892 | RADM | 09/15/1914 - 11/09/1914 |
| Belknap, Reginald Rowan, CDR | 1981 | 11/09/1914 - 12/19/1914 | |
| Decommissioned | 12/12/1914 - 04/04/1915 | ||
| Wallace, Levin James, LCDR | 12/19/1914 - 01/06/1915 | ||
| Christy, Harley Hannibal, CDR | 1891 | VADM | 01/06/1915 - 04/10/1915 |
| Twining, Nathan Crook, CDR | 1889 | RADM | 04/10/1915 - 05/08/1915 |
| Schofield, Frank Herman, CDR | 1890 | RADM | 05/08-1915 - 12/03/1915 |
| Kessler, Robert Wood, LT | 12/03/1915 - 05/10/1916 | ||
| Decommissioned | 05/10/1916 - 03/24/1917 | ||
| McSheehy, Edward Lloyd, LT | 1905 | 05/15/1916 - 03/17/1917 | |
| Williams, Yancey Sullivan, LCDR | 1898 | RADM | 02/05/1917 - 03/17/1917 |
| Williams, Philip, CAPT | 1889 | 03/17/1917 - | |
| Baughman, Cortlandt Chesterfield, LT | 1907 | 03/24/1917 - 01/24/1919 | |
| Howe, Alfred Graham, CAPT | 1901 | RADM | 01/24/1919 - 06/15/1919 |
| Neal, George Franklin, CDR | 1901 | RADM | 06/15/1919 - 10/13/1919 |
| Babbitt, Herbert Stephens, CDR | 1907 | 10/13/1919 - 09/10/1920 | |
| Wait, Dallas, LT | 09/10/1920 - 06/10/1921 | ||
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
USS CHESTER Scout Cruiser 1/(CL 1) History
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