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Revision as of 19:23, 20 November 2014
Two Harvard class auxiliary cruisers were International Navigation Company liners charted by the U.S. Navy in 1898 as Armed Merchant Cruisers.
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Launched | Acquired | Commissioned | Fate |
| Harvard | J. & G. Thompson | 15 Mar, 1888 | Apr 1898 | 26 Apr, 1898 | Returned 2 Sep, 1898 |
| Yale | J. & G. Thompson | 23 Oct, 1888 | 27 Apr, 1898 | 2 May, 1898 | Returned 2 Sep, 1898 |
Construction
Clipper bowed, with three masts and three funnels.[1]
Armament
Harvard
- eight 5-inch/50 caliber
- eight 6-pounders
Yale
- eight 5-inch/40 caliber
- four 3-pounders
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 168.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 33.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 33.
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).
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
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