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Starboard broadside view of the USS New Orleans underway
circa 1899, soon after being commissioned.
Library of Congress, Photo #LC-D4-5521
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Mike Green |
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Port bow view, date unknown. |
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neworl10 |
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Port bow view, date and location unknown. |
Roel Bakels |
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New Orleans at anchor, date and location unknown. |
Thomas Becher |
neworl18 |
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San Pedro, California, date unknown |
Mike Davison |
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USS New Orleans Docked at the New York Navy Yard, April 1898,
immediately after her maiden voyage from England. The receiving ship
USS Vermont is at left. Note New Orleans' extra-long commissioning
pennant.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 75495 .
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Stern view of the protected cruiser USS New Orleans
at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898 shortly after commissioning
Library of Congress, LC-D4-20077
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Mike Green |
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Port bow view of the protected cruiser USS New Orleans
leaving Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898 for the Spanish American War.
Library of Congress, LC-D4-20078
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Mike Green |
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USS New Orleans Photographed circa March-April 1898, possibly
in a British port prior to her departure for the United States. Note
rowing craft in the foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45112.
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USS New Orleans Photographed during the Spanish-American War,
1898.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45115.
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USS New Orleans Halftone photograph, taken during the Spanish-American
War and published in the book War in Cuba, 1898. Courtesy of Alfred
Cellier, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 85648.
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USNHC |
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USS New Orleans Dressed with flags, 1898. Note this British-built
cruiser's elaborate stern decoration, and the civilian rowboat in foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 45116.
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USNHC |
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Quarterdeck area, circa 1899-1900. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13963 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
Library of Congress |
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6" deck gun, circa 1899-1900. Note the 1 Pounder guns mounted on the mast. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13964 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
Library of Congress |
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6" deck gun, circa 1899-1900. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13965 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
Library of Congress |
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Midships, looking forward, circa 1899-1900. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13960 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
Library of Congress |
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Quarterdeck, looking forward, circa 1899-1900. Note the 6" Ready Service rounds sitting in racks out in the open on deck. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13962 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
Library of Congress |
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Captain Edwin Longnecker standing in the pilothouse, circa 1899-1900. Note the 6" Ready Service rounds sitting in racks out in the open on deck. From the collection of the Detroit Publishing Company
Library of Congress Photograph ID det.4a13966 taken by Edward H. Hart. |
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alb21 | NR |
OLD CRUISERS ARE DEFECTIVE
Severe Criticism of the Albany and New Orleans
Two Vessels Bought in England Must Be Reconstructed.
Serious defects which make the ships unfit for habitation have been discovered in the protected cruisers Albany and New Orleans.
These vessels are sister ships, and were purchased at Elswick, England, just before the outbreak of the war with Spain.
Surgeon Harris, recently attached to the Albany, and now on duty on the Monocacy, says in an official report that from a sanitary point of view the Albany is so radically defective that it is almost impossible to relate in detail the necessary changes which will have to be made before she can be transformed into a reasonably sanitary teasel.
The space on board is not sufficient to meet the requirements of the health of the crew. Ventilation from the deck should be provided for the entire berth deck from the engine room forward. Surgeon Harris thinks an improved system of ventilation is absolutely necessary.
"It is impossible to overestimate," he says, "the danger to health of those who are berthed in wing passages should the weather require the ship to be battened
down for several days. With a temperature of 136 degrees F. it is obvious that people could not live in these places.
"The reason that the health of the crew of this ship has been about average since she went into commission is, in the first place, that she has never had
her full complement of men aboard her, and, in the second place, that she has done most of her cruising in favorable weather. If these conditions are materially changed, the health of the crew will, in my opinion, proportionately suffer."
| Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA.
Photo from The San Francisco Call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 24 November 1901, Image 27, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
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USS New Orleans in New York Harbor, copyright by
Enrique Muller, October 1899 and published by The Rotograph Company of
New York. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Port bow view of the protected cruiser U.S.S. New Orleans underway
between 1900 and 1901 at an unknown location.
Library of Congress, LC-D4-20072
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Mike Green |
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Stern area while moored at Mare Island, 27 January 1905 |
Darryl Baker |
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Midships looking aft while moored at Mare Island, 27 January
1905. |
Darryl Baker |
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Late afternoon view of her at Mare Island 27 January 1905 |
Darryl Baker |
alb34 | NR |
3 OLD CRUISERS ADE DUE FOR JUNK HEAP
TOO old to fight, even too old to limp along in the foaming wake of the Pacific fleet’s trim vessels of today, three of Uncle Sam’s gallantcruisers of three decades age have struck their colors. Battle scarred and worn from years of service on the high seas, they have lowered their flags.
And staunch sea warriors though they were, in their day, they will not even be accorded the glory of sailor’s grave, in their passing.
They are the cruisers, Albany (CL 23), "Tea Kettle” of the China fleet; and bearer of more than one admiral’s pennant; her sister ship, the New Orleans (CL 22), and last, the old Salem (CL 3), convoy ship and terror of enemy submarines during the world war.
Unlike other historic vessels of the Navy which have been towed far out to sea and sunk as targets for their sister ships when their days of usefulness were past, the Albany, the New Orleans and the Salem are to be junked.
Already the Albany has partially succumbed to the searing flames of blow torches, and fires deliberately set to burn away her seasoned hull.
Bit by bit, every bolt, every rivet and every piece of brass is being stripped from these old vessels, who in their day rode the Seven Seas. |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Photo from The Washington Times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 28 April 1930, Image 12, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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Commanding
Officers
|
| Name/Rank |
Class |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Nazro, Arthur Phillips, LCDR |
1869 |
|
03/18/1898 - 04/18/1898 |
| Folger, William Mayhew, CAPT |
1865 |
|
04/18/1898 - 08/02/1899 |
| Longnecker, Edwin, CAPT |
|
|
08/02/1899 - 08/08/1900 |
| Green, James G., CAPT |
|
|
08/08/1900 - 02/04/1901 |
| Sperry, Charles Stillman, CAPT |
1866 |
RADM |
02/04/1901 - 01/10/1903 |
| Ingersoll, Royal Rodney, CDR |
1868 |
RADM |
01/10/1903 - 05/27/1903 |
| Blockinger, Gottfried, CDR |
1868 |
|
05/27/1903 - 10/23./1903 |
| Harber, Giles Bales, CAPT |
1869 |
RADM |
10/23/1903 - 02/06/1905 |
| Decommissioned |
|
|
02/06/1905 - 11/15/1909 |
| Wells, Roger, CDR |
1864 |
|
11/15/1909 - 10/25/1910 |
| Miller, William Gardner, CDR |
1885 |
|
10/25/1910 - 02/14/1912 |
| Keller, Henry Rupert, LTJG |
1907 |
|
02/14/1912 - 12/31/1913 |
| Irwin, Noble Edward, CDR |
1891 |
RADM |
12/31/1913 - 08/13/1915 |
| Campbell, Edward Hale, CAPT |
1893 |
VADM |
08/13/1915 - 03/31/1916 |
| Jenson, Henry Norman, LCDR |
1897 |
|
03/31/1916 - 04/16/1918 |
| Larimer, Edward Brown, CDR |
1899 |
|
04/16/1918 - 05/29/1920 |
| Owens, Charles Truesdale, CAPT |
1897 |
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05/29/1920 - 11/16/1922 |
