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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Des Moines''''' was one of six [[Denver Class Cruiser (1901)|''Denver'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Des Moines''''' was one of six [[Denver Class Cruiser (1901)|''Denver'' Class protected cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
''Des Moines'' was launched on 20 September, 1902 at [[Fore River Shipbuilding Company]], sponsored by Miss E. Macomber.  She was commissioned on 5 March, 1904 under the command of Commander Alexander McCrackin.


==Service==
==Service==


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Alexander McCrackin|nick=Alexander McCrackin|appt=5 March, 1904|end=20 May, 1905{{USOfficerReg1905|p. 12}}{{INF}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=William Frederick Halsey, Jr.|nick=William F. Halsey, Jr.|appt=20 May, 1905{{USOfficerReg1906|p. 12}}|end=2 September, 1906{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Abraham Ellis Culver|nick=Abraham E. Culver|appt=2 September, 1906{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 14}}|end=1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 12}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=William Banks Caperton|nick=William B. Caperton|appt=1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 12}}{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 14}}|end=29 July, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 12}}{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 12}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=John Harry Shipley|nick=John H. Shipley|appt=29 July, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 12}}{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 12}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=John Fraser Luby|nick=John F. Luby|appt=1 April, 1910{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 12}}|end=after 1 January, 1911{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 12}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Andrew Theodore Long|nick=Andrew T. Long|appt=31 October, 1912{{USOfficerReg1913|p. 14}}|end=26 January, 1914{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Carl Theodore Vogelgesang|nick=Carl T. Vogelgesang|appt=26 January, 1914<ref>"The Navy Gazette".  ''Army and Navy Register''.  31 January, 1914.  Vol. '''LV''', No. '''1,750''', p. 151.</ref>|end=23 October, 1914{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=John Russell Young Blakely|nick=John R. Y. Blakely|appt=23 October, 1914{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 16}}|end=after 1 January, 1917{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 14}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=John Gaylord Church|nick=John G. Church|appt=6 June, 1919{{USOfficerReg1920|pp. 16-17}}}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 13:28, 27 April 2018

U.S.S. Des Moines (1902)
Hull Number: Cruiser No. 15[1]
PG-29 (7 July, 1920)[2]
CL-17 (8 August, 1921)
Builder: Fore River[3]
Ordered: Act of 3 March, 1899[4]
Laid down: 28 Aug, 1900[5]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1902[6]
Commissioned: 5 Mar, 1904[7]
Decommissioned: 9 Apr, 1921[8]
Sold[9]: 11 Mar, 1930[10]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Des Moines was one of six Denver Class protected cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Des Moines was launched on 20 September, 1902 at Fore River Shipbuilding Company, sponsored by Miss E. Macomber. She was commissioned on 5 March, 1904 under the command of Commander Alexander McCrackin.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  2. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 155.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  7. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  8. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  9. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  10. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 449.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1905. p. 12.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 12.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 14.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 12.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 12.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 14.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 12.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 12.
  19. ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 12.
  20. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 12.
  21. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 12.
  22. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 12.
  23. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 14.
  24. ↑ "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 31 January, 1914. Vol. LV, No. 1,750, p. 151.
  25. ↑ Register of Officers, 1915. p. 16.
  26. ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 14.
  27. ↑ Register of Officers, 1920. pp. 16-17.

Bibliography


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