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Revision as of 16:54, 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.

Overview of two vessels
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

Armament

Harvard

[1]

  • eight 5-inch/50 caliber
  • eight 6-pounders

Yale

[2]

  • eight 5-inch/40 caliber
  • four 3-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 33.
  2. ↑ 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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