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PLANS FOR ARMORED CRUISER CALIFORNIA CONTEMPLATE BEST FIGHTING QUALITIES WITH SPEED SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING A FLOAT
Naval Namesake of the Golden State Is One of a Half Dozen Vessels Designed to Surpass the Greatest Achievements of Foreign Powers and Maintain the Glory of Unele Sam Undiminished on the Seas.
THE NEW SHEATHED AND ARMORED CRUISER CALIFORNIA AS SHE WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED AND IN COMMISSION. DRAWN FROM THE NEWLY COMPLETED PLANS OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT WHICH IN MAKING THEM HAD IN VIEW THE PRODUCTION OF THE PERFECTED TYPE OF THE MODERN FIGHTING MACHINE
| Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 11 November 1900, Image 21, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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NEW ARMORED CRUISERS
SIX OF THE MOST IMPROVED DESIGN TO BE BUILT AT ONCE.
DETAILED PLANS FOR THE VESSELS TO BE NAMED WEST VIRGINIA, NEBRASKA, CALIFORNIA, MARYLAND, COLORADO AND SOUTH DAKOTA. |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from New-York Tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 02 December 1900, Image 21, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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SHE'S A WINSOME MISS
Miss Florence Pardee, who has been chosen by her father, Governor Pardee, to christen the new cruiser California (ACR 6) is a winsome pretty miss of 16. |
Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA.
Photo from The Tacoma Times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 26 April 1904, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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LATEST ADDITION TO THE GREATER NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES GLIDES SMOOTHLY FROM WAYS AND IS CHRISTENED CALIFORNIA |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 29 April 1904, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Cruiser California Leaves for her Trial Trip Today
The new 14,000-ton" armored cruiser California (ACR 6), just completed at the Union Iron Works, will leave early this morning for the Santa Barbara Channel where her builders must demonstrate to the satisfaction of Uncle Sam that the latest addition to the navy is all the specifications call for. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 03 October 1906, Image 16, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Commissioning of the California (ACR 6) at Mare Island Navy Yard on 1 August 1907. |
Darryl Baker |
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Port bow view during the Great White fleet's visit to California. Note her name in large lighted letters above the bridge. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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California (ACR 6) at anchor, 27 October 1907, location unknown. Image was taken by unknown photographer for the National Photo Company.
Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID LC-DIG-npcc-32729 (digital file from original). |
Robert Hurst |
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Ask Funds for Cruiser's Silver Service | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
Photo from Los Angeles Herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.) 1900-1911, 17 January 1908, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Nice day for a photo op of the California (ACR 6) in 1908.
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Local Identifier: 111-SC-5366.
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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California (ACR 6) is seen in the Mare Island
Channel in May 1908.
U.S. Navy Photograph
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Darryl Baker
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USS
Ohio (BB 12), California (ACR 6) and
USS South Dakota (Armored Cruiser No. 9)
between May and July 1908 at Mare Island Navy Yard while assigned to the
Great White Fleet. The cruisers are moored next to the yard's coal sheds.
Note the coal handling equipment installed by the Brown Hoisting Machinery
Company in 1904 seen above the coal sheds. |
Darryl Baker |
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Stern view of California (ACR 6)
in San Diego harbor circa 1909. |
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California (ACR 6) underway in San Pablo
Bay, California, 1909. Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 55009.
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Armored Cruisers Steam Into Port From Waters of Orient
Armored cruiser California (ACR 6), the new flagship of the Pacific fleet.
| Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call.[volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 15 February 1910, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Home Built Warship Leads All California Proves Efficiency | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call.[volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 17 October 1910, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Starboard quarter view while in drydock at Mare Island, sometime after Lattice mast installed in July 1911.
From the collection of H. G. Froehlich, CPO USN
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Herman Froelich |
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Starboard bow view, sometime after Lattice mast installed in July 1911, location unknown. Note the draging anchor.
U.S. Navy photo.
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Pacific Fleet Salutes President as Commander in Chief
The new 14,000-ton" armored cruiser California (ACR 6), just completed at the Union Iron Works, will leave early this morning for the Santa Barbara Channel where her builders must demonstrate to the satisfaction of Uncle Sam that the latest addition to the navy is all the specifications call for. | Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 16 October 1911, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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At anchor in Pearl Harbor, December 1911. |
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The California (ACR 6) is seen
on 14 December 1911, being escorted into Pearl Harbor. California
was the first large warship to enter Pearl Harbor after the dredging of
the channel was completed. |
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Jupiter
(AC 3) fitting out at Navy Yard Mare Island, 14 August 1912.
. The Armored Cruiser California is forward of Jupiter
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # AC 3 008-8-12
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San Diego (ACR 6) photographed on 28 January
1915, while serving as flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Her name had been
changed from California on 1 September 1914. Note two-star Rear Admiral's
flag flying from her mainmast top.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 55013.
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San Diego (ACR 6) photographed on 28 January
1915, while serving as flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Her name had been
changed from California on 1 September 1914. Note two-star Rear Admiral's
flag flying from her mainmast top.
National Archives item #165-WW-335D-20 |
National Archives |
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Port side view of the San Diego (Armored Cruiser
No. 6) in the Mare Island Channel on 10 September 1915.
U.S. Navy Photo #RM72002
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San Diego (ACR 6) off Guaymas, Mexico, 26
December 1915. Photographed by Hopkins. Note Christmas tree mounted
on her forecastle. Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92174.
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San Diego (Armored Cruiser No.-6) photographed from an airplane
in San Diego harbor, California, 28 March 1916. Collection of Thomas
P. Naughton, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92175.
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Starboard bow view of the San Diego (Armored Cruiser
No. 6) in Mare Island's dry dock #2 on 4 May 1916.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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Darryl Baker |
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Stern view of the San Diego (ACR 6) in Mare
Island channel on 4 May 1916. Note that she is flying a 4-star pennant from her after mast for the Commander-In-Chief Pacific Fleet.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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Darryl Baker |
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Starboard bow view of the San Diego (Armored Cruiser
No. 6) in Mare Island channel on 4 May 1916. Note that she is flying a 4-star pennant from her after mast for the Commander-In-Chief Pacific Fleet.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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Admiral William B. Caperton, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific
Fleet (center)
With members of his staff on board San Diego (Armored Cruiser
No. 6) at San Diego, California, circa 1916-17. The ship's after
eight-inch gun turret is behind them. Those present are (from left to
right):
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) H.M. Lammers, USN;
Captain R.M. Cutts, USMC;
Medical Inspector E.S. Bogert, USN;
Admiral Caperton;
Pay Inspector J. Fyffe, USN;
Lieutenant A.T. Beauregard, USN; and
Paymaster C.S. Baker, USN.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Adm. W.B.
Caperton.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 83793.
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Starboard bow view of the San Diego (Armored
Cruiser No. 6) anchored in the Atlantic Ocean after transiting the
Panama Canal.
US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo No.1988.120.001
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Bow ornament of the San Diego (ACR 6) on
27 January 1917.
U.S. Navy Photo #3010.
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Darryl Baker |
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Naval Ball program from 1917 or 1918.
From the collection of H. G. Froehlich, CPO USN
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Herman Froelich |
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Naval Ball program from 1917 or 1918.
From the collection of H. G. Froehlich, CPO USN
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Herman Froelich |
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Naval Ball program from 1917 or 1918.
From the collection of H. G. Froehlich, CPO USN
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Herman Froelich |
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Naval Ball program from 1917 or 1918.
From the collection of H. G. Froehlich, CPO USN
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Herman Froelich |
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SAN DIEGO SUNK OFF FIRE ISLAND | Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation.
Photo from The Sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 20 July 1918, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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San Diego (ACR 6) - Painting by Francis
Muller, 1920. It depicts the ship sinking off Fire Island, New York,
after she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-156, 19 July
1918. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph 44-006-N
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