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LAUNCHING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS
Another Commerce Destroyer Set Afloat For the Government. |
Image and text provided by Boston Public Library.
Photo courtesy of Springfield Weekly Republican. [volume] (Springfield, Mass.) 1851-1946, 18 August 1893, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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Minneapolis was sponsored by the camera shy Miss Elizabeth Washburn, daughter of Senator William D. Washburn of Minnesota. |
Text courtesy of DANFS.
Photo courtesy of wikimedia.org |
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Minneapolis is berthed at a Cramp shipyard pier, Philadelphia, on 12 November 1894, a month before being commissioned. Passenger vessel Saint Louis is in the distance on shipways. |
William H. Rau LOC photo via Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine. |
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Minneapolis (C 13) on builder's trials in 1894. She is flying
the flag of her builder, William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46173.
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Minneapolis, date and location unknown.
From the collection of the late Antoni Blasi.
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Col·lecció Antoni Blasi, via Camil Busquets |
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Port quarter view while at anchor, date and location unknown. From the collection of Willard E. Spencer, Jr. |
Sheila Spencer Lein |
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Portside view while underway in 1894 that someone attempted
to colorize. |
Darryl Baker |
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Minneapolis (C 13) at anchor in 1896. |
Robert Hurst |
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Minneapolis (C 13) Photographed while at anchor, 1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 63591.
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Minneapolis (C 13) photographed circa August 1898 by C.E.
Bolles, Brooklyn, New York. USS Columbia
(Cruiser No. 12) is in the right distance.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46172.
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Minneapolis (C 13) at anchor in 1898, with USS
Texas coaling in the left distance. The original photograph
was published on a stereograph card by J.F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C.,
1898. Note Minneapolis' bow decoration, anchor and anchor chain.
Donation of Louis Smaus, 1985.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #100346.
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Crewmen on the ship's fore deck in 1898. Photographed and published
on a stereograph card by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire, in
1898. Note Minneapolis armored conning tower, located under her wooden
pilothouse. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #89084.
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A Postcard of the cruiser Minneapolis in the Bay
of Villefranche sur Mer, in the south of France taken before 1900. |
David Lacroix |
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Minneapolis (C 13) photographed in May 1904.
Photo courtesy of loc.gov
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Edward H. Hart photographer, Detroit Publishing Co., publisher. |
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Postcard Image is from Enrique Muller in 1904 showing the Minneapolis passing down New York Bay on her way to sea. Original Undivided Back Postcard by The American News Company of New York
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Constitution, Tacoma (Cruiser No. 18), and Minneapolis (C 13) at Brooklyn Navy Yard [BNY], 1 December 1904. |
National Archives Identifier 6880339.
Agency-Assigned Identifier F1018 N1
Photo via catalog.archives.gov courtesy of Daniel Hacker. |
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Port side view while at anchor in Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA,
in 1905. The 2 ships behind the Minneapolis in the photo appear
to be Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders or Auxiliary Cruisers. There is
also another Columbia class Cruiser at the far left of the photo.
Photo 1A-06791 from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection at the U.S.
Library of Congress
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Two views of Brooklyn Navy Yard [BNY], 1 February 1906, Dry Dock Number 4, looking Northeast from Building 131 showing the Minneapolis (C 13). View looking aft from the foremast top. Note stacks and steampipes.
Note also the battleship Indiana (BB-1) tied up across the pier. |
National Archives Identifier 6881325.
Agency-Assigned Identifier F544 N78
Photo via catalog.archives.gov courtesy of Daniel Hacker. |
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CRUISER MINNEAPOLIS ORDERED TO CUBA
The big triple-screw cruiser, Minneapolis (C 13), has been ordered to prepare in all haste to sail for Cuba, on short notice. It is probable that the Minneapolis will be expected to set off Saturday: Captain Fiske commands the cruiser, which is one of the best of the navy. |
Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN.
Photo courtesy of The Minneapolis Journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 14 September 1906, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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COMPANY OF MARINES OF THE CRUISER MINNEAPOLIS, TAKEN AS THEY FORMED TO MARCH ABOARD THE CRUISER ON ITS DEPARTURE FOR HAVANA.
A brigade of marines consisting of 750 men, commanded by Major Wendell C. Neville, was landed at 8 am today from the United States warships Kentucky (BB-6), Indiana (BB-1), and Minneapolis (C 13), and proceeded by trolley to Camp Columbia. There was no demonstration of any kind. The departure of Senor Palma from Havana has been postponed until tomorrow. |
Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN.
Photo courtesy of The Minneapolis Journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 01 October 1906, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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From right to left are the decommissioned ships Katahdin,
Columbia
(C 12), and Minneapolis (C 13) moored at League Island
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. circa 1907. |
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Minneapolis (C 13) view looking aft from the foremast top, circa 1918. Note stacks and steampipes. |
Photo NH-46183 via history.navy.mil |
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Minneapolis (C 13) in drydock for hull cleaning, between convoy escort voyages, 1918. Note triple screws. Photographed in 1918.
Photo NH 46190 via history.navy.mil
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Camouflaged Minneapolis in the San Diego area seen with tug Challenge (AT 59), circa 1918. |
Photo via Dave Schroeder and John Chiquoine. |
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Minneapolis (C 13) in drydock, receiving a mine defense
installation (probably a paravane skeg), 1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46189.
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Minneapolis (C 13) painted in "dazzle" camouflage,
1918.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #46198.
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Minneapolis (C 13) View looking aft, during convoy escort
operations in 1918. Extra coal, to increase her steaming range, is stowed
in bags on deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 46193.
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Starboard quarter view, at Mare Island, CA sometime after
15 March 1921 when she was decommissioned. Here waiting to be scrapped. |
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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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