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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Salem''''' was one of three [[Chester Class Cruiser (1907)|''Chester'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Salem''''' was one of three [[Chester Class Cruiser (1907)|''Chester'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].


==Service==
She commissioned on 1 August, 1908 with Commander [[Henry Braid Wilson|Henry B. Wilson]] in command.
She commissioned on 1 August, 1908 with Commander [[Henry Braid Wilson|Henry B. Wilson]] in command.
==Service==


==Captains==
==Captains==
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Revision as of 02:41, 26 November 2014

U.S.S. Salem (1907)
Hull Number: CL-3
Builder: Fore River[1]
Ordered: Act of 27 Apr, 1904[2]
Laid down: 28 Aug, 1905[3]
Launched: 27 Jul, 1907[4]
Commissioned: 1 Aug, 1908[5]
Decommissioned: 16 Aug, 1921[6]
Stricken: 13 Nov, 1929[7]
Sold: 11 Feb, 1930[8]

U.S.S. Salem was one of three Chester class light cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

She commissioned on 1 August, 1908 with Commander Henry B. Wilson in command.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 155.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  4. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  8. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  9. ↑ Register of Officers, 1914. p. 20.

Bibliography


Chester Class Light Cruiser
  Chester Birmingham Salem  
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