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777k | USS Birmingham (CS-2) and USS Salem (CS-3) completing, at the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, circa early 1908. Original is a color tinted postcard, mailed at Quincy on 9 September 1909. Courtesy of Captain Don Fink, 1983 | Photo NH 94937 courtesy of history.navy.mil | |
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250k | Stern view while in drydock on 5 March 1908. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.4500.18498 |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) Running sea trials in March 1908. She is flying the flag of her builder, the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, from her mainmast. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56390. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) Underway in 11 March 1908, possibly during trials. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.5940.18505 |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) Dressed with flags while at anchor, circa 1909. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 101517. |
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NR | Uncle Sam to Race Three Ocean Greyhounds Across Ocean At Top: Cruiser Chester in Center: Cruiser Birmingham, and at Bottom Cruiser Salem, three Scout Boats from the Navy Department Which Are to Negotiate a 5,000-Mile Race. The navy department is about to institute a naval race unprecedented in naval history. To the Azores and back, a distance of some 5,000 miles, three scout cruisers are to be sent away on a record defying trip for the purpose of settling the much mooted question of superiority of different types of engines used in American naval construction. |
Image and text provided by State Historical Society of North Dakota. Photo from The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 17 March 1909, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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NR | TWO SEASICK OPERATORS Reason the Wireless Equipment on Scout Cruisers Salem and Birmingham Failed to Work | Image and text provided by University of Utah, Marriott Library. Photo from The Salt Lake Herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 30 December 1909, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Eugene B. Ely setting his Curtiss Pusher Plane on skids in preparation for hoisting it aboard USS Birmingham (CS 2) at Hampton Roads VA Navy Yard. November 1910 Photograph. This was not a Navy plane and Eli never was in the Navy, but his importance to Naval aviation is recognized by the USN in many ways, including awarding him the Distinguished Flying Cross many years after his premature death in 1911. Photo from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks, Vol. II. Page 80. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph |
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A floating crane lifts Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane onto USS Birmingham (CS 2), at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77549. |
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A floating crane places Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board USS Birmingham (CS 2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77550. |
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Sailors and civilians crowd around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane as a floating crane places it on board USS Birmingham (CS 2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77562. |
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Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on the takeoff platform of USS Birmingham (CS 2), just after it was hoisted aboard by a floating crane. Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98131. |
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Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane rests on the flying-off platform built over the foredeck of USS Birmingham (CS 2). Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. The floating crane that had lifted the airplane onto the ship is visible at the extreme left. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77551. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) steams downriver from the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, at about midday on 14 November 1910. Ely and his plane made their historic flight later that afternoon. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77554. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) bound for Hampton Roads, after leaving the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, 14 November 1910. Ely took his plane off from Birmingham later that afternoon. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 1831. |
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Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane off the deck of USS Birmingham (CS 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (DD 24) is visible beyond Birmingham's bow, acting as plane guard. Note that Birmingham's anchor is in the process of being hoisted. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 77563. |
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Eugene B. Ely takes his Curtiss pusher airplane off from the deck of USS Birmingham (CS 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (DD 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 76511. |
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The flag-draped caskets of the victims of the USS Maine explosion are brought ashore at the Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia, from USS Birmingham (CS 2), 23 March 1912. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 1690. |
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Port bow view while participating in the Naval Review, 12 October 1912. Part of the National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Library of Congress #LC-DIG-npcc-32744 |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) during the 1912 Naval Review. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 61899. |
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Naval recruits at the Newport Naval Training Station lined up for inspection. The scout cruiser USS Birmingham (CS 2) can be seen in the background. Photo by Underwood and Underwood. |
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130k | Port side view while underway 25 August 1915, location unknown. Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.5560.23366 |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) In Brest harbor, France, on 15 October 1918. During 1917-1918 she was flagship of U.S. Forces at Gibraltar and escorted convoys in the eastern Atlantic. Note her "dazzle" camouflage. Courtesy of John G. Krieger, 1966-1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56393. |
Fred Weiss/USNHC | |
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169k | Similar to previous photo, probably the same location and date. | David Wright | |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) Moored in Gibraltar harbor, British Territory of Gibraltar, circa 1918. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. (Caption updated by Andrew Schembri) U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 68227. |
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139k | USS Birmingham (CL 2) in dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard sometime between 17 January?€“18 February 1919 Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collections |
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311k | Here's a nice crew shot of ship's signal gang. Judging by uniforms, would say post-World War One. Looks like she has the flush-decker style wind deflectors on her bridge, too. The 4 men holding semaphore flags are spelling out "B" "H" "A" "M". | David Wright | |
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280k | Starboard side view while underway, location unknown but possibly with the Pacific Fleet in 1919. | Robert M. Cieri | |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) At Boston, Massachusetts, 20 February 1919. Photographed by J. Crosby, Naval Photographer, 11 Portland St., Boston, Mass. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Crosby Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 98132. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) In the Middle West Chamber, Gatun Locks, during the passage of the Pacific Fleet through the Panama Canal, 24 July 1919. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral William V. Pratt. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 75717. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) At Seattle, Washington, in September 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 56394. |
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USS Birmingham (CS 2) At anchor in San Diego Harbor, California, circa late 1919 or early 1920, when she was flagship of Destroyer Squadron Four. Note the pair of World War I "Overseas Service" chevrons painted on her forward smokestack. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 102784-B. |
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USS Birmingham (CL 2) Leading destroyers out of a West Coast harbor (probably San Diego), circa 1919-1922. The ships directly behind her are USS Twiggs (DD 127) and USS Chauncey (DD 296). Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 69510. |
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Commanding
Officers
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Name/Rank | Class | Final Rank | Dates |
Walling, Burns Tracy, CDR | 1876 | COMO | 04/11/1908 - 02/24/1909 |
Howard, William Lauriston, CDR | 1882 | RADM | 02/24/1909 - 10/28/1909 |
Fletcher Sr., William Bartlett, CDR | 1877 | RADM | 10/28/1909 - 05/10/1911 |
Jones Jr., Hilary Pollard CDR | 1884 | ADM | 05/10/1911 - 06/30/1911 |
Decommissioned | 06/30/1911 - 09/08/1911 | ||
Whitlock, Guy, LT (First Tour) | 09/08/1911 - 12/18/1911 | ||
Hughes, Charles Frederick, CDR | 1888 | RADM | 12/18/1911 - 08/15/1912 |
Decommissioned | 04/20/1912 - 05/19/1912 | ||
Decommissioned | 07/11/1912 - 10/01/1913 | ||
Whitlock, Guy, LT (2nd Tour) | 08/15/1912 - 03/04/1913 | ||
Joyce, Myles, LT | 03/04/1913 - 01/08/1914 | ||
Pratt, William Veazie, CAPT | 1889 | ADM | 01/08/1914 - 11/05/1914 |
Hussey, Charles Lincoln, CAPT | 1892 | RADM | 11/05/1914 - 01/01/1915 |
Sellers, David Foote, CDR | 1894 | ADM | 01/01/1915 - 06/09/1916 |
Blamer, DeWitt, CAPT | 1891 | 06/09/1916 - 04/28/1919 | |
Evans, Franck Taylor, CDR | 1898 | 04/28/1919 - 11/22/1920 | |
Landenberger, George Bertram, CAPT | 1900 | 11/22/1920 - 11/22/1921 | |
Castleman, Kenneth Grayson., CDR | 11/22/1921 - 12/01/1923 |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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