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Photo of USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) shortly after commissioning. She appears to be in the Mare Island Channel. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS San Francisco in an Italian port.
From the collection of the late Antoni Blasi.
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Col·lecció Antoni Blasi, via Camil Busquets |
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Enlisted navy personnel aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5). Photo taken sometime between the years 1890 to 1901.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Bill Gonyo |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) in the Mare Island Channel on 7 March 1891. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) about to enter Mare Island's dry dock #1 on 7 March 1891. She was the first ship to be docked in the new dry dock |
Darryl Baker |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) in Mare Island's dry dock #1 circa 1891. |
Darryl Baker |
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Port quarter view of USS San Francisco (C 5) in Mare Island's dry dock #1 circa 1891-1982
NHHC photo #NH 68694 |
Darryl Baker |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) at anchor, at New York, during the Columbian Naval Parade, 27 April 1893. Photographer unknown.
Images courtesy DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) underway at an unknown location
circa 1895-1898.
Source: Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-D4-20933
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Mike Green |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) Halftone photograph, published in Uncle
Sam's Navy, 1898. San Francisco is dressed with flags, with the
Italian ensign at her mainmast peak, possibly during her 1895-96 European
Squadron service.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. #NH 44247.
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) Halftone photograph, Detroit Publishing Company, 1898. San Francisco is dressed with flags, with the
Italian ensign at her mainmast peak, possibly during her 1895-96 European
Squadron service.
United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID det.4a14708. |
Robert Hurst |
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Moored at Norfolk Navy Yard, February 1902. |
Darryl Baker |
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Moored at Norfolk Navy Yard, February 1902. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) in 1903, as rebuilt without yards and masts.
USN Photo.
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Robert Hurst |
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The decommissioned USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) sits moored
in the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia in 1905.
Library of Congress Photo.
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Bill Gonyo |
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Loading mines onto the USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) at Invergordon, Scotland on 18 September 1918. The USS Shawmut (ID-1255) is anchored in the background.
Imperial War Museum American First World War Official Exchange Collection, Photo No. IWM (Q 20263). |
Mike Green |
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The former protected cruiser USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) in mine vessel configuration, is seen dry docked at Invergordon, Scotland on 23 September 1918. The ship was converted to, but not reclassified as a mine vessel in June, 1908.
Imperial War Museum American First World War Official Exchange Collection, Photo No. IWM (Q 20263). |
Mike Green |
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Mines on launching track on the mine vessel USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5), while the ship is on North Sea patrol on 20 September 1918.
Imperial War Museum American First World War Official Exchange Collection, Photo No. IWM (Q 20257). |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Class |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Sampson, William T., CAPT |
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RADM |
11/15/1890 - 06/1892 |
| Shepard, Edwin Malcolm, CAPT |
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11/21/1894 - 1896 |
| Leary, Richard Phillips, CAPT |
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1898 - 10/25/1898 |
| Decommissioned |
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10/25/1898 - 01/02/1902 |
| Walker, Asa, CAPT |
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RADM |
01/02/1902 - 11/1903 |
| Decommissioned |
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12/31/1904 - 11/29/1911 |
| Cottman, Vincendon Lazarus, CAPT |
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08/29/1911 - 1912 |
| Belknap, Reginald Rowan, CAPT |
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12/12/1914 - 12/16/1915 |
| MacArthur Jr., Arthur, CDR |
1896 |
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12/16/1915 - 10/16/1917 |
| Decommissioned |
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06/06/1916 - 10/18/1916 |
| Butler Jr., Henry Varnum, CAPT |
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1918 |
| Gannon, Sinclair, CAPT |
1900 |
RADM |
01/13/1919 |
| MacArthur Jr., Arthur, CAPT |
1896 |
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05/24/1919 - 04/19/1920 |
| Lackey, Henry Ellis, CAPT |
1899 |
RADM |
~1920 - 12/24/1921 |
| Green |
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03/09/1934 |
| Kirk, CDR |
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07/01/1936 |
| Bowman, CDR |
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05/26/1936 |
