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Olympia 1904

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C6, 7.1920- CA15, 8.1921- CL15	Olympia	17	Union Iron Wks, San Francisco	17.6.1891	5.11.1892	5.2.1895	miscellaneous auxiliary 6.1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	5865
Displacement full, t	6558
Length, m	104.9
Breadth, m	16.2
Draught, m	6.55 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	13500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 1093
Endurance, nm(kts)	13000(10)
Armour, mm	nickel steel - deck: 51 with 121 (amidships)-76mm (ship ends) slopes, engines glacises: 102, turrets: 89 (Harvey steel), barbettes: 114, shields: 102, ammunition tubes: 76, CT: 127
Armament	2 x 2 - 203/37 Mk III, 10 x 1 - 127/40 Mk II, 14 x 1 - 57/45-50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk I/II, 6 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 6 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam, 1 stern)
Complement	447

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 7.9.1888. Protected cruiser with heavy guns.

Ship protection

In this ship the 203mm guns were in fore and aft twin turrets protected by 89mm Harvey with 114mm nickel steel barbettes and 76mm ammunition Tubes. 127mm guns to port and starboard amidships in the superstructure had 102mm shields, the CT 127mm and the protective deck was 51mm on the flat with the slopes 121mm amidships and 76mm at the ends. Engines cylinders were protected by a 102mm glacis.

Modernizations

1900: - 6 - 450 TT

1918: - 2 x 2 - 203/35, 10 x 1 - 127/40, 14 x 1 - 57/45-50, 6 x 1 - 37/40; + 10 x 1 - 127/51 Mk VIII

Naval service

Olympia was an accommodation ship at Charleston from 1912-1916, but was on active service during the First World War, and finally decommissioned 9.12.1922, being reclassified as IX40 in 1931. She was stricken in 1957 and preserved as museum ship at Philadelphia.