Albany (CG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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sea in the West lndies1, as superior to most ships. On November 29, 1852, ALBANY, under the command of Commander J. T. Gerry, again sailed from Boston to ioin the Home Squadron in the West Indies. After cruising for several months, she re- turned to New York, where she was refitted and put to sea on December 12, 1853, bound again for the the West Indies, Upon arrival, she resumed oper- ations among the numerous ports of the Caribbean and along the coast of Central America, On Septem- ber 28, 1854, Commander Gerry wrote from Aspin- wall lColon1, Panama, informing the Navy Depart- ment that ALBANY would sail under his command the next day for New York. When several weeks had passed without further word being received, the steamer PRINCETON left Pensacola in search of ALBANY on November 21, running down the coast of Cuba, off the islands of Little Cayman and Cay- man's Brac, they by way of Kingston, Jamaica and Aspinwall to Key West. The steamer FULTON also made a rapid searching cruise for ALBANY, departing Norfolk on December 30, 1854 and steam- l l 1 l . I xx X 9 Th 0U9h the Bahama and Caribbeanjslands' a'0'19 the Spanish Main to Aspinwall, off NlCaVa9Ua and Jamaica, along the coast of 'Hondur8S and The 1 YUC.afan to Havana, before returning to Norfolk on April 5,1 1855. Not the slightest information COUld be obtained on the missing ship and ALBANY WGS never heard from again. Pensions to the dependents of the officers and seamen lost in ALBANY were awarded by Act of Congress, Qffgcfive April 18, 1855. The second ALBANY, a screw sloop-of-war, was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, POVfSf'n0UTn, New Hampshire, and launched as USS CONTOO- COOK on December 3, 1854. Built according to plans drawn up by the Bureau of Construction for the Navy Department in 1863, CONTOOCOOK was one of a number of large wooden frigates and sloops-of-war in which much green material had to be used, since the supply of seasoned timber had been so drawn upon by the unusual amount of ship building during the war years. Being long and nar- row, the ships were strengthened with diagonal iron bracing amounting almost to an enormous iron l -l li .l 8 -5 . , 1 i 4 i A 1 I F I ' 1 i . , I ,. .s '.f , . -' ' . --1-.11 .- 1- .. .N:e,s-fi':1:,1n-Li-I-i,-g -, if .Lis ,V 4 - 3 42145:-' i t ig: . 1 ' - f . ' 'T7 I' '31 United States Screw Sloop-of-War ALBANY: 1868 - 1879 basket woven over the hull. Although this held the ships together long after the decay of tlie timbers would have caused them to tall in pieces, those that were finished were Sh0VT'llV9d- CONTOOCOOK's overall length was 296 feet, breadth, 41 feet, depth of hold, 7 feet, 8 inches, and she displaced 2348 tons. Costing -563O,538.75, ex- clusive of machinery, she was designed' for atop speed of 13 knots, and was armed with eight 9-inch guns, one 60-pounder rifle, four 24-pound bronze howitzers and one 12-pound bronze howitzer. The ghip was placed in commission Ion March 14, 1868. CONTOOCOOK made her first cruise as flag- ship of Rear Admiral Hoff, Commander ofthe North Atlantic Squadron, her first two cruises were in the West Indies for the protection of American interests during 1868 and 1869. Her name was changed to ALBANY effective May 15, 1869, and in the fall of that year, she made a third cruise to the West Indies. ALBANY was placed out of commission on January 7, 1870 and served as a quarantine ship at New York until sold for 54,800 on December 12, 1872. The third ALBANY, a protected cruiser, was built by Armstrong, Whitworth and Company, New- castle on Tyne, England. Originally the Brazilian cruiser ALMIRANTE ABREU, she was purchased from the government of Brazil while on the ways on March 16, 1898. Renamed ALBANY, she was 1 U U ,'A gi L, 3'!r' '91 R9 'Ai ln 54.- EIC'- sr: ii we , K hoes a 'Cn TOD S: loin' Caribe' DOu'ce TNQ5 'W Crm., A, K :L- NN: 29 'GQ' Nana S lo 5-- i M i W5 5 NQXQNE: iii p. ' to . Weil, ,. -. H. SeDtQ'w.g VHUSQ' sqx. Jill 4 Y vs , lanq Terrairegs Sliiarp f mn' 11:11 Avi Servicer' stay in E of the ' on lie . K i , an Y ! - Q ' 3 ' ' - t' - it A ,- - , A 1 Y A' l A V K V V VR , .. .u.,... ,.. , ... ..

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wyifjqm ire N We asain. av'- 'L 1-ag ii 'FC 22 fy- D Q 151 Q f'x The heavy cruiser USS ALBANY is launched: June 10, 1945 first mercantile convoy of the war under a United States command. From this time until the signing of the armistice, she gave protection to 224 mer- chant vessels during eleven convoy e-srort voyage-5 across the Atlantic, operating as a unit of ine cruis- er Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet during the latter pa- riod of this service. ln 1919, she stearnc 1'e A ap igin the Asiatic Fleet, spending much of her 'irne in the region of Vladivostok, Siberia, where shi? cent land- ing forces ashore and gave other importsiril- support to the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. Gm August 6, 1922, ALBANY returned to the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was decommissioned on October 10 the same year, l-lar name was stricken from the Navy list on November 3, 1929, and she was sold on February 11, 1930. The fourth ALBANY, now a guided missile cruiser, was built as a heavy cruiser, CA 123, by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Quincy, Massachu- setts. l-ler keel was laid on March 6, 1944 and she was launched on June 10, 1945 under the sponsor- ship of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Pinckney of Albany, New York, whose son was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. The ship was bought by the citizens of Albany through their subscriptions of over 540,000,000 in United States War Bonds. ALBANY was placed in commission at the Bos- ton Navy Yard on June 15, 1946 under the command of Captain H, A. Carlisle, USN. After conducting trial runs off Provincetown, Massachusetts, shake- down training operations while based at Casco Bay, Maine, and returning to Boston for alterations, she arrived in her home port of Norfolk on January 21, 1947. During the next year and a half, she made several Midshipman training cruises and engaged in routine exercises which took her to ports along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Argentina, On September 11, 1948, ALBANY sailed from Norfolk for a seven month tour of duty in the Medi- terranean area as flagship of Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Commander Sixth Fleet. ln Vice Ad- miral Sherman's farewell speech to the Crew of ALBANY prior to transferring his flag to U55 FARGO, he commended the crew on the axcelienf '-e-' 4... X wil eSl 5 0 l Zard cam' l ll tial Seto' lan U, S moili C and WMC' ioi T Medi Hallo pal D S Ns I X