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  Cleveland 1904

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C14, 7.1920- PG28, 8.1921- CL16	Denver		Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia	28.6.1900	21.6.1902	17.5.1904	stricken 3.1931
C15, 7.1920- PG29, 8.1921- CL17	Des Moines	107	Fore River, Quincy	28.8.1900	20.9.1903	5.3.1904	stricken 12.1929
C16, 7.1920- PG30, 8.1921- CL18	Chattanooga		Crescent, Elizabethport	29.3.1900	7.3.1903	11.10.1904	stricken 12.1929
C17, 7.1920- PG31, 8.1921- CL19	Galveston		Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth	19.1.1901	23.7.1903	15.2.1905	stricken 11.1930
C18, 7.1920- PG32, 8.1921- CL20	Tacoma	71	Union Iron Wks, San Francisco	27.9.1900	2.6.1903	30.1.1904	wrecked 16.1.1924
C19, 7.1920- PG33, 8.1921- CL21	Cleveland	35	Bath Iron Wks	1.6.1900	28.9.1901	2.11.1903	stricken 12.1929

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3200
Displacement full, t	3514
Length, m	94.1
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	4.80 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	C14, 16, 18, 19: coal 675 C15, 17: coal 700
Endurance, nm(kts)	6900(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 8 with 64 - 25mm slopes, casemates: 44
Armament	10 x 1 - 127/50 Mk V, 8 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II, 2 x 1 - 37/50 Driggs-Schroeder heavy long Mk II
Complement	339

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1899. Slow and weak ships on the lines of a larger Montgomery. 127mm guns were mounted with one fore and aft on the upper deck, and eight on the main deck in casemates, the hull being recessed to give better axial fire.

Ship protection

Thickness of deck slopes was 64mm amidships and 25mm at ship ends, flat was 8mm. Casemates had 44mm protection.

Modernizations

1917-1918, all: - 2 x 1 - 127/50

Naval service

 Tacoma was wrecked on reef off Vera Cruz 16.1.1924.