NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C7	Cincinnati		New York N Yd	29.1.1890	10.11.1892	16.6.1894	stricken 8.1921
C8	Raleigh		Norfolk N Yd	19.12.1889	31.3.1892	17.4.1894	stricken 8.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3183
Displacement full, t	3339
Length, m	93.2
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	5.49 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 460
Endurance, nm(kts)	10700(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 25 with 64 (amidships) - 51mm (ship ends) slopes, shields: 102, CT: 51
Armament	C7: 1 x 1 - 152/41 Mk IV, 10 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II, 8 x 1 - 57/45-50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 4 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern) C8: 1 x 1 - 152/41 Mk IV, 10 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II, 8 x 1 - 57/45-50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 4 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 4 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	312 - 322

Standard scale images

Project history

Authorized under the Act of 7.9.1888. In these ships 152mm gun was on the upper deck forward, two of the 127mm abreast on the upper deck aft and the remainder in main deck. As originally completed they had fore and aft sails but these were removed in or before 1899.

Ship protection

Sponsons amidships had local 102mm protection. The CT was 51mm and the protective deck 25mm on the flat with slopes 64mm amidships and 51mm fore and aft.

Modernizations

(1899-1901) Cincinnati; (1899-1903) Raleigh: - 1 x 1 - 152/41, 4 - 450TT; + 1 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II; machinery was replaced by new VTE and 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, mainmast was removed on Cincinnati

1916-1917, Cincinnati: - 2 x 1 - 127/40, 4 x 1 - 57/45-50, 2 x 1 - 37/40

1916-1917, Raleigh: - 2 x 1 - 127/40, 4 x 1 - 57/45-50, 4 x 1 - 37/40

Naval service

No significant events.