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  San Francisco 1891

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
C5, 7.1920- CM2	San Francisco, 12.1921- Tahoe, 1.1931- Yosemite	11	Union Iron Wks, San Francisco	14.8.1888	26.10.1889	15.11.1890	minelayer 6.1908, stricken 6.1937

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4088
Displacement full, t	4583
Length, m	98.9
Breadth, m	15.0
Draught, m	5.74
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	10500
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 627
Endurance, nm(kts)	7400(10)
Armour, mm	steel - deck: 51 with 76mm slopes, 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

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1887. Originally rigged as a three-masted schooner without head gear, San Francisco generally resembled Newark except that the two forward and two after 152mm guns were carried a deck higher and were not in sponsons.

Ship protection

The protective deck was 51mm at flat part with 76mm slopes amidships, CT had 76mm sides. Guns were partly installed in unprotected sponsons and partly on open deck.

Modernizations

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

(1908 - 1911, Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth): cruiser was rebuilt as minelayer. Armament consisted of 8 x 1 -127/40 Mk III guns and stowage for 180 mines. Old boilers were replaced by 8 Babcock & Wilcox

to 1918: - 8 x 1 - 127/40; + 4x 1 - 127/51 Mk VIII

Naval service

During the First World War she took part in laying the Northern Mine Barrage. San Francisco was decommissioned at Philadelphia in 1921, and remained in reserve until stricken in 1937. Sold for BU in 1939.