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Marblehead

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C9	Montgomery, 3.1918- Anniston		Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore	2/1890	5.12.1891	21.6.1894	torpedo experimental ship 1908-1914, stricken 8.1919
C10	Detroit		Columbian Iron Wks, Baltimore	2/1890	28.10.1891	20.7.1893	stricken 7.1910
C11, 7.1920- PG27	Marblehead		City Point Iron Wks, Boston	10/1890	11.8.1892	2.4.1894	Naval Militia TS 3.1910-4/1917, gunboat 7.1920, stricken 8.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2094
Displacement full, t	2235
Length, m	82.1
Breadth, m	11.3
Draught, m	4.44 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	5400
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	coal 340
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel - deck: 13 with 13mm slopes, CT: 51
Armament	9 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II, 6 x 1 - 57/45-50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 3 - 450 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	274

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 7.9.1888. Slow and weak ships with no effective deck protection. One 127mm gun was on the upper deck forward and the rest in main deck sponsons.

Ship protection

Protective deck was 13mm at flat and slopes. CT had 51mm sides.

Modernizations

1899, all: - 3 - 450 TT

1916-1918, Montgomery: - 9 x 1 - 127/40, 6 x 1 - 57/45-50, 2 x 1 - 37/40; + 8 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX; boilers were replaced by 6 Almy.

1916-1918, Marblehead: - 9 x 1 - 127/40, 6 x 1 - 57/45-50, 2 x 1 - 37/40; + 8 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX

Naval service

Montgomery served as a torpedo experimental ship 1908-1914. Marblehead was loaned to Naval Militia in 1910-1917.