NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C1	Newark	258	Cramp, Philadelphia	12.6.1888	19.3.1890	2.2.1891	loaned to Naval Militia 3.1907-3/1908, stricken 6.1913

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4083
Displacement full, t	4592
Length, m	100.0
Breadth, m	15.0
Draught, m	5.74 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	8500
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal 800
Endurance, nm(kts)	7400(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 51 - 76, 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

Standard scale images

Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1885. A considerable improvement on Chicago.  152mm guns were all in sponsons. As originally commissioned Newark was rigged as a barque without royals or head gear, but sails were later removed, and as in other three-masted US cruisers laid down in the 1880s the original mainmast was unstepped as well.

Ship protection

Complete protective deck was 51mm amidships with 76mm slopes, 51mm forward and 76mm aft. CT had 76mm sides.

Modernizations

(1901-1902): - 12 x 1 - 152/30; + 12 x 1 - 152/41 Mk IV

Naval service

She was stricken from the Navy in June 1913 but served as a quarantine hulk at Providence RI and temporarily as a naval hospital annex, until 1926.