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Contact Info
Home Town New Haven, CT
Last Address San Diego, CA
Date of Passing Nov 19, 1953
Location of Interment Cypress View Mausoleum - San Diego, California
She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CLASS - Denver Displacement 3,200 Tons, Dimensions, 309' 10" (oa) x 44' x 17' 3" (Max) Armament 10 x 5"/50, 8 x 6pdr, 2 x 1pdr. Armor, 1 3/4" Shields, 2 1/2" Deck. Machinery, 4,700 IHP; 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws Speed, 16.5 Knots, Crew 339. Operational and Building Data Keel laid on 29 MAR 1900 by Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ Launched on 7 MAR 1903 Commissioned 11 OCT 1904 Decommissioned 17 SEP 1910 Commissioned 21 APR 1914 Reclassified on 07 July 1920 as PG 30 Decommissioned 19 JUL 1921 Reclassified on 08 AUG 1921 as CL 18 Stricken 13 DEC 1929 Fate: Sold for scrap 08 MAR 1930