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73k | Port bow view while anchored, date and location unknown. | Mike Hughes | |
![]() c2010 |
227k | USS St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) date and place unknown. This photo from a collection called "California's Reception to the Fleet 1908". | Darryl Baker | |
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136k | Caption from back of photo: "A gun crew at drill. X is Pointer. XX is Trainer. Weight of projectile alone without powder , 62 pounds." | Tommy Trampp | |
![]() c2011 |
2.13m | Getting underway, possibly at Philadelphia in late 1906. | Darryl Baker | |
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2.16m | Getting underway, possibly at Philadelphia in late 1906. | Darryl Baker | |
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67k |
USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Photographed circa 1906-07, soon after completion. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 44192. |
USNHC | |
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64k |
USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Photographed circa 1907. Collection of Rear Admiral B.F. Hutchison; Courtesy of Mrs. Worth Sprunt, 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 81435. |
USNHC | |
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121k | "Liege" Valet to Captain Albert Gleaves, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20), circa 1909. He is standing by one of the ship's 6"/50 guns. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation; Collection of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #NH 83564. |
Robert Hurst | |
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62k |
USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Off San Francisco, California, circa 1909-1916. Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63587. |
USNHC | |
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USS Raleigh (Cruiser No. 8), USS Oregon (BB 3) and USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Moored together at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, circa 1913. Saint Louis is being repainted. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 78279. |
National Archives | |
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1.74m | USS St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) at Goat Island (San Francisco Bay) with USS Pensacola in the background. | Darryl Baker | |
![]() c2014 |
295k | USS St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) in dry dock, Panama, about 1916. | Robert Hurst | |
![]() c2021 |
91k | USS St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) leaving Pedro Miguel Lock for Gaillard Cut 9 May 1917 Photo #80-878 possibly from the Detroit Publishing Company |
John Clingman | |
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72k |
Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 14 September 1917. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 50115. |
USNHC | |
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59k |
USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Photographed in September 1918, in wartime camouflage paint. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 2800. |
USNHC | |
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73k |
USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20) Halftoned photograph, showing the ship in her World War I camouflage. Note numerous wartime modifications to her 6-inch gun battery, rig and superstructure. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 90775. |
USNHC | |
![]() c2009 |
108k |
USS St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) in port, circa 1919. Probably photographed by J.C. Crosby, Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Crosby Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 105324 . |
Robert Hurst | |
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Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Older warships in the Reserve Basin, 18 November 1919, as seen by a Philadelphia Evening Ledger photographer. Ships are (front row, left to right): USS Missouri (BB 11); one Connecticut class battleship; USS Michigan (BB 27); and USS Saint Louis (Cruiser No. 20). Those in the back row are (left to right): USS Maine (BB 10); USS Kentucky (BB 6); USS Kearsarge (BB 5); USS Indiana (BB 1); USS Massachusetts (BB 2); USS Iowa (BB 4); USS Wisconsin (BB 9); and USS Illinois (BB 7). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 42525. |
USNHC | |
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166k |
The ex-USS St. Louis (CA 18) is being maneuvered by tugs at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 28 February 1930. Decommissioned in March, 1922, the cruiser will be stricken on 20 March 1930 and sold for scrap accordance with the provisions of the London Treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, George D. McDowell Collection. |
Mike Green | |
![]() c2018 |
166k |
The cruisers, ex-USS St. Louis (CA 18) and ex-USS Huntington (CA 5), on 8 August 1930, after long and honorable careers, go on the auction block. The ships are moored in the back channel at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and are waiting to be transferred to the highest bidder, with bids having been received by the Navy on the previous day. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, George D. McDowell Collection, ID No. P563125B. |
Mike Green | |
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245k | The x-USS St Louis is being dismantled at Phila NSY in September 1930, as a consequence of the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament (London Naval Treaty). Philly's massive hammerhead crane is at work. | Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine |
Commanding
Officers
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Name/Rank | Class | Final Rank | Dates |
Usher, Nathaniel Reilly, CAPT | 1875 | RADM | 08/18/1906 - 04/04/1908 |
Hutchinson, Benjamin F., LCDR | 04/04/1908 - 04/21/1908 | ||
Gleaves, William, CDR | 1877 | 04/21/1908 - 11/0-5/1909 | |
Pratt, William Veazie, LCDR | 1889 | ADM | 11/05/1909 - 04/02/1910 |
Pettengill, George T., LT | 04/02/1910 - 05/03/1910 | ||
Decommissioned | 05/03/1910 - 10/07/1911 | ||
Whitehead, Walter Ernest, LT | 04/05/1911 - 03/18/1912 | ||
Cook, Merlyn G., LT | 03/18/1912 - 01/17/1915 | ||
Houston, Victor Stuart, LCDR | 01/17/1915 - 04/29/1917 | ||
Decommissioned | 02/17/1916 - 07/10/1916 | ||
Trench, Martin Edward, CAPT | 1893 | 04/29/1917 - 10/14/1917 | |
Evans, Waldo, CAPT | 1891 | 10/14/1917 - 07/13/1918 | |
Bronson, Jr., Amon, CAPT | 07/13/1918 - 09/06/1918 | ||
Lincoln, Gatewood Sanders, CAPT | 1896 | 09/06/1918 - 10/07/1919 | |
Theleen, David Elias, CAPT | 1897 | 10/07/1919 - 05/07/1921 | |
Leahy, William D., CAPT | 05/31/1921 - 03/03/1022 |
(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)
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