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Brooklyn 1898

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
ACR3, 7.1920- CA3	Brooklyn	275	Cramp, Philadelphia	2.8.1893	2.10.1895	1.12.1896	stricken 3.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	9215
Displacement full, t	10068
Length, m	122.7
Breadth, m	19.7
Draught, m	7.32 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 VTE, 7 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	16000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 1753
Endurance, nm(kts)	6088(10)
Armour, mm	Harvey and nickel steel - belt: 76, deck: 152 - 64, barbettes: 203 - 76, turrets: 140, casemates: 102, CT: 216
Armament	4 x 2 - 203/37 Mk IV, 12 x 1 - 127/40 Mk III, 12 x 1 - 57/45 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I, 4 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 5 - 450 TT (4 beam, 1 bow)
Complement	561 - 581

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 19.7.1892. A ship of unusual appearance with pronounced tumblehome and three high funnels. The fore 203mm turret was at forecastle deck and the others at upper deck level with the supports for the wing turrets rising from the inward sloping side. Originally the forward and starboard wing turrets were electrically trained and the other two steam. Eight of the 127mm guns were in main deck sponsons and four at upper deck level with the foremost pair sponsoned under the forecastle.

Ship protection

The 76mm belt only covered the machinery spaces, and protection depended largely on the armour deck which was 76mm flat and 152mm on the slopes by the belt, and 64mm fore and aft. The barbettes were shallow 203-102mm rings with 76mm ammunition tubes.

Modernizations

(1908 - 1912): the turret hoists were improved, fire-control fitted; - 5 - 450 TT

1919: - 4 x 1 - 127/40; + 2 x 1 - 76/52 Mk X

Naval service

Brooklyn was out of commission from 1908 to 1914. Her last year's commission from January 1920 was as flag of the Pacific Fleet destroyers.