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USS COLORADO/PUEBLO (Armored Cruiser No. 7/CA 7)


   

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: Nan - Dog - Nan
(Courtesy of John Spivey)

CLASS - PENNSYLVANIA
Displacement 13,680 Tons, Dimensions, 504' (oa) x 69' 7" x 26' 6" (Max)
Armament 4 x 8"/40, 14 x 6"/50 18 x 3"/50, 12 x 3pdr, 2 x 1pdr, 2 x 18" tt.
Armor, 6" Belt, 6 1/2" Turrets, 4" Deck, 9" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 23,000 IHP; 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 22 Knots, Crew 830.
Operational and Building Data
Launched 25 APR 1903 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, PA
Commissioned 19 JAN 1905
Decommissioned 17 MAY 1913
Commissioned 09 FEB 1915
Renamed Pueblo 09 SEP 1916
Decommissioned 22 SEP 1919
Redesignated CA 7 in 1920
Commissioned 02 APR 1921
Decommissioned 28 SEP 1927
Stricken 21 FEB 1930
Fate: Scrapped 02 OCT 1930
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Nicaraguan Campaign Medal - Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal w/PATROL Clasp

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Pueblo 60k USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7) - Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship at anchor in a harbor, 1905. Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, New York, 1912).

Donation of David Shadell, 1987.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103624.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 51k USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7) photographed circa 1905-1906 by C.E. Waterman, probably while anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 94583.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 83k USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7) photograph taken circa 1905-1908, and published on a color-tinted postal card by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 101233-KN.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 75k "Morning Colors" on the quarterdeck, while the ship was anchored in the Hudson River off New York City, circa 1905-1906.

Courtesy of Robert O'Mara, 1982. The photograph was taken by his Great-Grandfather.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93677.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 63k Anchored in the Hudson River off New York City, circa 1905-1906.
Judging by the boat wake visible in the foreground, this photograph was probably taken right after that seen in Photo # NH 93677.

Courtesy of Robert O'Mara, 1982. The photograph was taken by his Great-Grandfather.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 93678.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 44k In a harbor, circa 1905-1908.

Donation of the Boston National Historical Park (Charlestown Navy Yard), 1979-1980.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 103796.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo
acr0719
527k A card commemorating the Far East cruse of USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7). This was the first Asiatic Fleet deployment by U.S. armored cruisers and along with Colorado, included USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser No. 8) , USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser No. 5) and USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser No. 4). Robert M. Cieri
Pueblo
acr0720
248k The itinerary of Far East cruse of USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7). This was the first Asiatic Fleet deployment by U.S. armored cruisers and along with Colorado, included USS Maryland (Armored Cruiser No. 8) , USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser No. 5) and USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser No. 4). Robert M. Cieri
Pueblo 78k
Underway in Manila Bay, Philippines, in 1906. She was accompanied by her sister Armored Cruisers Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania on this first major Asiatic Fleet deployment by U.S. armored cruisers.

Donation of F.M. Deats, 1963.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Tony Cowart
Pittsburgh
acr0450
303k

Photo Caption:

"A FLOCK OF UNCLE SAM'S PEACE DOVES AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY-YARD

The work of preparing the warships for their 13,000-mile voyage into the Pacific, and of keeping of all other vessels in the highest state of efficiency, is being prosecuted with all possible dispatch at all of the United States Naval Stations."

In the photo - Battleship INDIANA (upper left), Armored Cruiser PENNSYLVANIA (middle left), Armored Cruiser COLORADO (top center), Battleship ALABAMA (Center), Armored Cruiser MARYLAND (left), and Armored Cruiser WEST VIRGINIA (foreground).

Library of Congress Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-66021

Tom Kermen
Pueblo 174k

Port side underway, September 1907.

National Archives Image # (19-N-6-10-11)

National archives
Pueblo 55k In a harbor, circa 1908. Note that her name is displayed in large letters above her pilothouse.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 55269.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 68k Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1908 by Weidner, San Francisco, California. The original print was a postal card. Note the ship's name in large letters above her pilothouse.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 80766.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 89k In dry dock at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1908.
Photographed by E.L. Meyer, Seattle, Washington.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 94581.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 93k In dry dock at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1908.
Photographed by E.L. Meyer, Seattle, Washington.
Note the men posing on Colorado's starboard screw.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 94k USS Colorado (Armored Cruiser No. 7) Underway, 10 JUN 1913.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 55268.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo 122k From a postcard - Starboard bow view, 1913. Paul E. Petosky
Pueblo 60k
In a harbor, probably on the Pacific Coast, circa 1916.
This ship was renamed Pueblo in November of that year.
The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock.

Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92176.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo
acr0721
61k

USS Pueblo (Armored Cruiser No. 7) - Halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship, taken circa 1919. It was published in 1919 as one of ten images in a "Souvenir Folder" concerning USS Pueblo. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 104462.

Robert Hurst
Pueblo 122k Starboard View, 1919. Larry Bonn
Pueblo 62k
Arriving at New York from France with several thousand American veterans on board, 22 February 1919. Most of the men were from the 161st Infantry of the Sunset Division, while many others were casuals from New York.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 55270.

Tony Cowart
Pueblo
acr0722
89k WWI era ships postcard. Tommy Trampp

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Class Final Rank Dates
Kennedy Jr., Duncan, CAPT 1868   01/19/1905 -
Staunton, Sidney Augustus, CAPT 1871 RADM 03/27/1907
Moore, Charles Brainard Taylor, CAPT 1873 ADM 12/21/1908 - 11/28/1909
Bierer, Bion Barnett, LCDR (O-in-Ch) 1891   11/28/1909 - 01/26/1910
Nelson, Valentine Sevier, CAPT 1871   01/26/1910 - 07/02/1910
Bierer, Bion Barnett, LCDR (O-in-Ch) 1891   07/02/1910 - 08/06/1910
Gill, William Andrew, CAPT 1879   08/06/1910
Gilmer, William Wirt, CAPT 1895   12/10/1912
Decommissioned     05/17/1913 - 02/09/1915
Griswold, Ralph Mancill, LCDR 1902   02/09/1915 - 05/29/1915
MacFall, Roscoe Conkling, LT 1905   09/14/1915 - 12/06/1915
Tozer, Charles Maxon, CDR 1896   12/06/1915 - 06/13/1916
Trench, Martin Edward, CDR 1893   06/13/1916 - 09/12/1916
Cole, William Carey, CAPT 1889 RADM 09/12/1916 - 04/29/1917
Williams, George Washington, CAPT 1890 RADM 04/29/1917 - 11/22/1917
Murfin, Orin Gould, CAPT 1897 ADM 11/22/1917 - 09/06/1918
Dayton, John Havens, CAPT 1890 RADM 06/06/1918 - 09/06/1918
Upham, Frank Brooks, CAPT 1893 RADM 09/06/1918 -
Decommissioned     09/22/1919 - 04/02/1921
Royall, Hilary, Herbert, CAPT 1899 VADM 04/22/1921 -
Stone, George Loring Porter, CAPT   VADM 06/20/1923 - 06/11/1924
McCloy, Thomas Shore, LCDR 1911   06/11/1924
Hill, Harry Wilber, LCDR 1911 VADM 06/10/1926 - 09/28/1927

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS COLORADO/PUEBLO (Armored Cruiser No. 7/CA 7) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

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