Monday 20 September 2021

The armoured cruiser USS Seattle at Pipitea Wharf during a 1925 visit to Wellington, New Zealand.


The armoured cruiser USS Seattle at Pipitea Wharf during a 1925 visit to Wellington, New Zealand.

USS Seattle (Ex-Washington) - Starboard side view, underway; place and date unknown.

USS Seattle (Armored Cruiser No. 11) at the Panama Canal's Pacific terminal, Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, circa July 1919. USS Cleveland (Cruiser No. 19) is beyond Seattle's stern, at right. The original halftone image is included in the booklet "The New Pacific Fleet Through the Panama Canal, July 1919, published by the Panama Pictorial Company, Newark, New Jersey.

The seventh USS Washington (ACR-11/CA-11/IX-39), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 11", and later renamed Seattle and reclassified CA-11 and IX-39, was a United States Navy Tennessee-class armored cruiser. She was laid down on 23 September 1903 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 18 March 1905, sponsored by Miss Helen Stewart Wilson, daughter of United States Senator John L. Wilson of Washington state, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 August 1906, Captain James D. Adams in command.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/USS_Washington_(ACR-11)

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