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  Philadelphia 1890s

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C4	Philadelphia	257	Cramp, Philadelphia	22.3.1888	7.9.1889	28.7.1890	receiving ship 5.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4324
Displacement full, t	5305
Length, m	102.1
Breadth, m	14.8
Draught, m	5.84 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 1031
Endurance, nm(kts)	6800(10)
Armour, mm	steel - deck: 64 with 102mm slopes, CT: 76
Armament	12 x 1 - 152/30 Mk III, 4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/Driggs-Schroeder Mk I, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss Mk I
Complement	384

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1887. Originally rigged as three-masted schooner without head gear and similar to Baltimore in protection. Philadelphia's 12 152mm guns were mounted as in the re-armed Baltimore except that the eight midships guns were in sponsons.

Ship protection

Protective deck was 64mm flat with 102mm slopes amidships, CT had 76mm sides.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Sent to Puget Sound Navy Yard for extensive repairs in August 1902, Philadelphia was housed over as a receiving ship at the above yard in 1904 and so remained, apart from a period as a prison ship, until stricken in 1926.