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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Salem''''' was one of four [[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==
==Service==
She commissioned on 1 August, 1908 with Commander [[Albert Lenoir Key|Albert L. Key]] in command.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Albert Lenoir Key|nick=Albert L. Key|appt=1 August, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 14}}|end=12 November, 1909{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 14}}{{INF}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=George Robert Evans|nick=George R. Evans|appt=12 November, 1909{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 14}}|end=7 November, 1911{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 14}}{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Lloyd Horwitz Chandler|nick=Lloyd H. Chandler|appt=7 November, 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}|end=after 1 January, 1912{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommUS}}|name=Leigh Carlyle Palmer|nick=Leigh C. Palmer|appt=25 August, 1913{{USOfficerReg1914|p. 20}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Harley Hannibal Christy|nick=Harley H. Christy|appt=1914{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 14}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Hayne Ellis|nick=Hayne Ellis|appt=2 April, 1919{{USOfficerReg1920|pp. 16-17}}}}
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==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 13:41, 4 November 2015

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 Albert L. Key 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, 1909. p. 14.
  10. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 14.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 14.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 14.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1914. p. 20.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 14.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1920. pp. 16-17.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


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