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CRUISER NUMBER 11 She Glided Off the Ways at 11 o'Clock To-Day.
CHRISTENED THE MARBLEHEAD.
It Was & Married Woman and Not a Maid Who Broke the Wine Bottle Upon the Prow and Gave the Ship its Name
The Marblehead was sponsored by Mrs. C. F. Allen, the daughter in law of Mrs. C. H. Allen, her husband, being Charles H. Allen,. Mr. Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Works which built Marblehead was building this as his last ship.
C. H. Allen was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, serving March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. In 1884, he received the title "Colonel," when Governor George Dexter Robinson appointed him to his personal staff. Governor Robinson..... after leaving office, his most famous legal client was Lizzie Borden, notoriously accused of killing her father and stepmother. She was acquitted in a highly sensationalized trial.
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Image and text provided by Rhode Island Digital Newspaper Project.
Photo from The Providence News. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 11 August 1892, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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CHARLES H. ALLEN IS DEAD IN LOWELL
Former Assistant Secretary of Navy Served as First Civil Governor of Puerto Rico |
Image and text provided by timesmachine.nytimes.com, 21 April 1934,
page 15.
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Marblehead, ready to launch on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04182 |
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Guests arriving for Marblehead's launching on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection, Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04182 |
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Marblehead sliding down the ways on 11 August 1892.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04184 |
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Marblehead just launched.
Historic New England Nathaniel L. Stebbins Collection Photo No. PC047.02.1520.04183 |
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NAVAL SUPERSTITION DEFIED Yesterday brought a big celebration to Boston, when Cruiser No. 11 was christened the Marblehead and given to the sea. The new navy is the richer by another well-equipped vessel, and each addition marks a step in our advance toward a naval power coramensnrate with our importance among the nations. Contrary to expectation, naval superstition gave way and the christening ceremony was performed by a wedded woman in opposition to all precedent. And now the observance even of naval superstition is proven as inconsistent as all other modern earthly things.
A tradition has been violated, and a superstition defied, and it remains to be seen what will result in the new cruiser. Probably its career will be as unmarked
by mishaps or just as checkered as it would have been if the launching had been conducted in the orthodox fashion, by the breaking of the champagne bottle in the hands of a maiden. But there is one direction in which the disregard of naval customs may turn out to be a real practical evil. It is just possible that it may add to the difficulty of obtaining seamen for the new vessel. This, however, is already so hard a matter to deal with satisfactorily for the navy as a whole that any trifling additional obstacle is hardly worthy of note. |
Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA.
Photo from Pittsburg Dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 12 August 1892, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Baptized the New Cruiser.
Mrs. C. H. Allen, of Boston, is the first married woman who has christened a warship. Naval tradition heretofore required that a maiden perform the ceremony.
Mrs. Allen yesterday at Boston, gave Cruiser No. 11 the name of Marblehead by which it will be known hereafter. The lady is the daughter in law of C.H. Allen, a Boston banker. |
Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation.
Photo from The Evening World. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 12 August 1892, LAST EDITION, Image 4, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Comdr. Charles O'Neil was in command of the Marblehead as her first Captain.
A turn of the century portrait photograph taken while he served as Rear Admiral, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, from 1 June 1897 to 14 March 1904.
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Marblehead after sliding down the ways. |
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Port quarter view at anchor, location and date unknown. |
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Port side view, date and location unknown. Note what appears
to be laundry hanging from the forward mast, drying. |
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Cold day in New England for the sailors of the Marblehead as they work raising the anchor (I guess).
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Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
Series: The Child Collection of Photographs (Bureau of Ships) Documenting U.S. Naval Vessels
National Archives Identifier: 353696686
Local Identifier: 19-NC-6840
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Starboard side view of the USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11). |
Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships
Series: The Child Collection of Photographs (Bureau of Ships) Documenting U.S. Naval Vessels
National Archives Identifier: 353696657
Local Identifier: 19-NC-6832
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
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CAPTURE OF A RICH PRIZE, AN OCEAN BATTLE After Taking a Spanish Steamer Near Cienfuegos United States Cruisers Quickly Rout a Gunboat.
The cruiser Marblehead and Nashville (Gunboat No. 7) and the converted yacht Eagle, forming the fourth division of the North Atlantic squadron and under command of Commander Bowman H. McCalla of the Marblehead sailed the early part of iast week for the south coast of Cuba. The division arrived off Cienfuegos on Friday morning. About 10 o'clock the Nashville sighted a steamer to the westward and began a chase. After a couple of hours the steamer was hove to by a shot across her bows, and an armed boat's crew was sent aboard...... |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 03 May 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Commander Bowman H. McCalla of the Marblehead |
Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 03 May 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) "Stripped for battle" in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, circa June-July 1898. Donation of Capt. Dudley W. Knox, 1926,
from the McCalla collection.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 47159.
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USS Marblehead in Guantanamo Bay during the Spanish American War in 1898. |
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The USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) is in the rear of Mare Island's dry
dock #1 with the out of commission Torpedo Boats USS Fox (TB 13)
and USS Davis (TB 12) forward of the cruiser. The ship in the
background to the left appears to be a revenue cutter with a tug outboard
of her.
U.S. Navy Photo
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USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) in the Mare Island channel
a month after her recommissioning in December 1902. |
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Ships in the Mare Island channel circa 1905 in the foreground are USS
Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) with two stacks and the Gunboat USS
Alert with one stack and in the background are USS
Bennington (1 stack and 3 masts) and USS
Cincinnati (Cruiser No. 7) (2 masts and 2 stacks) .
U.S. Navy photo #C 11 001-1905
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USS Jupiter
(AC 3) fitting out at Mare Island Navy Yard, with Marblehead
(Cruiser No. 11) alongside, circa 16-17 March 1913.
Photo from "U.S. Warships of World War One", with permission of the
author Paul H. Silverstone
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Starboard bow view while at anchor at Mare Island 13 March 1916. Courtesy
of Thomas P. Naughton.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 92170.
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Broadside view of USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) believed to be off Mare
Island circa 1916-17.
U.S. Navy Photo #C 11 1902
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Starboard side view of USS Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11) in the Mare Island
channel on 11 August 1917.
U.S. Navy Photo #C 11 3518-8-1917
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A WHALE OF A PICTURE!
The entire city of San Francisco lately played the role of Jonah to a huge, sperm whale, quite dead, which took a fancy to the beach near the Cliff House and made life miserable for half a million people when the west wind blew. The cruiser Marblehead speared the monster on its ram and brought it into port, thinking it might be valuable. After 24 hours, upon urgent request of the authorities, the Marblehead towed it out to sea again. But the tide brought it in upon the beach. It needed no newspaper publicity to announce its presence. It weighed 120 tons, and every ton had its own peculiar atmosphere. Crowds of sightseers swarmed to view the monster. None remained long. Those who ascended the slip- pery carcass usually tumbled all over themselves and went home to be hated by their friends and Relatives. The park commissioners, official custodians of the beach, finally had the carcass saturated with several hundred dollars’ worth of crude oil and gasoline and tried to burn it, but the waves put out the fire. Other attempts reduced the monster to a charred skeleton and a large section of the tail, which refused to burn. Incidentally the captain of the Marblehead suffered a nervous breakdown and went to a hospital for treatment, though his plight is said to have nothing to do with the whale. |
Image and text provided by Digital Library of Georgia, a project of GALILEO located at the University of Georgia Libraries.
Photo from Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 06 June 1919, Image 8, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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TWO U. S. CRUISERS ARE SOLD CHEAPLY Two former proud cruisers, the Minneapolis (Cruiser No. 13) and the Marblehead (Cruiser No. 11), which helped make American naval history during the Spanish war were sold for junk recently and are being dismantled at the Oakland shipyard.
Junk dealers purchased the two veteran vessels from the navy department recently for approximately $20,000.
When the ships were built about thirty years ago they cost almost $6,000,000.
The junk dealers say they hope to take from the vessels material worth about $500,000.
First to go to the junk yards was Minneapolis, second-class protected cruiser, built in 1891 of 7,350 tons displacement. Workmen with gas torches immediately started to cut away at her sides, her mahogany furniture was removed, her decks cut out and soon flat cars carried away huge pieces of steel. Soon after the workmen started, a fire broke out on the vessel and nearly destroyed it.
The Marblehead, a little third class cruiser, built in 1890 of 2,073 tons displacement follows Minneapolis to the graveyard.
The name of the Marblehead was wired around the world when, during the Spanish war. In company with the cruiser Nashville (Gunboat No. 7), she entered the harbor of Cienfuegos, Cuba, and cut a cable while under fire. The Minneapolis was one of the ships of the famous “flying squadron" under Commander Schley. |
Image and text provided by History Colorado.
Photo from Pueblo Chieftain. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1889-current, 11 December 1921, Image 21, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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