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CLASS - CHESTER
Displacement 3,750 Tons, Dimensions, 423' 1" (oa) x 47' 1" x 19' 3" (Max)
Armament 2 x 5"/50, 6 x 3"/50 2 x 21" tt.
Armor, 2" Belt.
Machinery, 22,242 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 25.95 (trial) Knots, Crew 356.
Operational and Building Data
Keel laid on 28 AUG 1905 at Fore River Shipbuilding Co. Quincy, MA
Launched 27 JULY 1907
Commissioned 01 AUG 1908
Decommissioned 20 APR 1912
Commissioned 23 APR 1914
Decommissioned 1 DEC 1914
Commissioned 21 MAY 1916
Decommissioned 02 DEC 1916
Commissioned 21 APR 1917
Decommissioned 23 APR 1917
Commissioned 25 JUL 1917
Reclassified CL 3 17 JUL 1920
Decommissioned 16 AUG 1921
Stricken on 13 NOV 1929
Fate: Sold for scrap to D. G. Seagraves of San Francisco, CA on 11 FEB 1930
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Size | Image Description | Contributed By And/Or Copyright |
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266k | Port Bow, Underway. 1908 Image # (19-N-11288). | National archives |
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116k | Good overhead showing excellent details, Undated. | USN |
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912k |
Starboard bow view, date and location unknown. Prior to modifications to bridge area. From "The Marine Steam Turbine", 1919. Image scanned by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Library |
Christopher Edwards |
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129k |
Starboard quarter view while underway, location unknown, sometime between 1910 and 1915. Library of Congress photo #LC-DIG-ggbain-09977 |
Bill Gonyo |
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98k | Off Boston on 19 March 1919 as modified after WW1. Modifications include a destroyer- type bridge wind deflector; an enclosed signal platform above the bridge; a crow's nest; a raised signal platform aft of the main mast. | USN |
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128k |
USS Salem (CL 3) anchored off Naval Station (NAS) San Diego, circa 1920. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No. 1985.055.001.025 |
Mike Green |
Commanding
Officers
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Name/Rank | Class | Final Rank | Dates |
Wilson, Henry Braid, CDR | ADM | 08/01/1908 - 08/24/1908 | |
Key, Albert Lenoir, CDR | 08/24/1908 - 11/12/1909 | ||
Evans, George Robert, CDR | 11/12/1909 | ||
Key, Albert Lenoir, CDR | 09/26/1910 - 11/07/1911 | ||
Chandler, Lloyd Horwitz, CDR | RADM | 11/07/1911 - | |
Decommissioned | 04/20/1912 - 04/23/1914 | ||
Collins, Marshall, ENS | 10/07/1912 - 03/30/1913 | ||
Decommissioned | 12/01/1914 - 05/21/1916 | ||
Christy, Harley Hannibal, CDR | VADM | 05/21/1916 - 12/01/1916 | |
Olmsted, Percy Napier, CDR | 06/15/1916 - | ||
Sellers, David Foote, CAPT | ADM | 12/01/1916 - 12/02/1916 | |
Decommissioned | 12/02/1916 - 04/21/1917 | ||
Pollock, Edwin Taylor, CDR | 04/21/1917 - 04/23/1917 | ||
Decommissioned | 04/23/1917 - 07/25/1917 | ||
Graham, Stephen Victor, CDR | 07/25/1917 - | ||
Berrien, Frank Dunn, CAPT | 10/10/1918 - 04/02/1919 | ||
Ellis, Hayne, CAPT | RADM | 04/02/1919 - 07/31/1920 | |
Foote, Percy Wright, CDR | 1901 | RADM | 07/31/1920 - 08/16/1921 |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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