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USS Minneapolis, date and location unknown.
From the collection of the late Antoni Blasi.
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Col·lecció Antoni Blasi, via Camil Busquets |
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Portside view while underway, date and location unknown. |
Tommy Trampp / Thomas Becher |
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Port quarter view while at anchor, date and location unknown. From the collection of Willard E. Spencer, Jr. |
Sheila Spencer Lein |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) on builder's trials in 1894. She is flying
the flag of her builder, William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46173.
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Fred Weiss/USNHC |
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Portside view while underway in 1894 that someone attempted
to colorize. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) at anchor in 1896. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) Photographed while at anchor, 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63591.
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Fred Weiss/USNHC |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) photographed circa August 1898 by C.E.
Bolles, Brooklyn, New York. USS Columbia
(Cruiser No. 12) is in the right distance.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46172.
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Fred Weiss/USNHC |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) At anchor in 1898, with USS
Texas coaling in the left distance. The original photograph
was published on a stereograph card by J.F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C.,
1898. Note Minneapolis' bow decoration, anchor and anchor chain.
Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #100346.
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USNHC |
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Crewmen on the ship's fore deck in 1898. Photographed and published
on a stereograph card by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire, in
1898. Note Minneapolis' armored conning tower, located under her wooden
pilothouse. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #89084.
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USNHC |
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A Postcard of the cruiser Minneapolis in the Bay
of Villefranche sur Mer, in the south of France taken before 1900. |
David Lacroix |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) Photographed in May 1904. Courtesy of
Howard I. Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46176.
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USNHC |
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Postcard Image is from Enrique Muller in 1904 showing the USS Minneapolis passing down New York Bay on her way to sea. Original Undivided Back Postcard by The American News Company of New York
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Duane Bass |
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Port side view while at anchor in Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA,
in 1905. The 2 ships behind the Minneapolis in the photo appear
to be Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders or Auxiliary Cruisers. There is
also another Columbia class Cruiser at the far left of the photo.
Photo 1A-06791 from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection at the U.S.
Library of Congress
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Jason Dieffenbacher |
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From right to left are the decommissioned ships Katahdin,
Columbia
(Cruiser No. 12), and Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) moored at League Island
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. circa 1907. |
Ron Reeves |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) Photographed circa 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46188.
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USNHC |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) In drydock, receiving a mine defense
installation (probably a paravane skeg), 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46189.
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USNHC |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) Painted in "dazzle" camouflage,
1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46198.
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USNHC |
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USS Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) View looking aft, during convoy escort
operations in 1918. Extra coal, to increase her steaming range, is stowed
in bags on deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46193.
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USNHC |
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Starboard quarter view, at Mare Island, CA sometime after
15 March 1921 when she was decommissioned. Here waiting to be scrapped. |
Jon Burdett |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Class |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Wadleigh, G. H., CAPT |
1864 |
RADM |
12/13/1894 - |
| Sands, James Hoban, CAPT |
1864 |
RADM |
06/1897 - 07/07/1897 |
| Jewell, Theodore Frelinghuysen, CAPT |
1865 |
|
03/05/1898 |
| Goodrich, Caspar Frederick, CAPT |
1865 |
|
06/10/1898 - 08/18/1898 |
| Decommissioned |
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08/18/1898 - 04/23/1902 |
| Chambers, Washington Irving, CAPT |
1876 |
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04/23/1902 - |
| Decommissioned |
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06/02/1903 - 10/05/1903 |
| Marix, Adolph, CAPT |
1868 |
RADM |
10/05/1903 - |
| Miller, James Madison, CAPT |
1867 |
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07/23/1906 - 11/17/1906 |
| Decommissioned |
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|
11/17/1906 - 07/02/1917 |
| Christy, Harley Hannibal, CAPT |
1891 |
VADM |
07/02/1917 - 08/17/1917 |
| Snyder, Charles Philip, CAPT |
1896 |
ADM |
08/17/1917 - 08/03/1918 |
| Brinser, Harry Lerch, CDR |
1899 |
RADM |
08/03/1918 - |
| Dodd, Edwin Horace, CAPT |
1900 |
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10/10/1919 - 03/15/1921 |
