Seattle (AOE 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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The first USS SEATTLE .... ' x I .gps -.'Nlr5.i - f, AMQQW '- A-LUX .V -Q-lg A .. -3-2 ,S -gn gif 5 5T f 1 ',,72:1'.,,, jg?- 5:- '-nn.. . :1 'A' ' Q 5' I - -4 7 ' 7--5'-'i' The first USS SEATTLE lArmored Cruiser Number 1 11 originally named USS WASHINGTON was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation Camden New Jersey Her keel was laid on 23 September 1903 and she was launched on 18 March 1905 The cruiser was delivered to the Navy at Philadelphia on 30 July 1906 The ship s characteristics were Length 504 feet- beam 73 feet displacement 14 500 tons draft 35 feet speed 22 knots and complement 42 officers and 814 men She was armed with four 10 inch sixteen 6 inch and twenty four 3-unch guns and four 21 -unch torpedo tubes Her armor was nine inches thick On 9 November 1916 Armored Cruiser 11 was renamed USS SEATTLE and the name WASHINGTON was reassigned to a new battleship USS SEATTLE was in the York River Virginia when the United States entered World War I and rn June 1917 she was the flagship of the first convoy to take American Expeditionary Forces to France and was the target of the first hostile attack on U.S. sea forces. All told, USS SEAITLE made nine successive convoy escort voyages to Europe during World War I . Following the Armistice, she became a m and soldiers. agic carpet for the return home of thousands of veteran sailors Following this duty and several peacetime cruises while assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, she became a receiving ship at New York in 1927 and remained so until 1941, when she was reclassified as a miscellaneous auxiliary. SEATTLE remained in New York until 1946, when her name was struck from the Navy list and she was sold for scrap in December. .ir . -' -.1-- .,. .-L. A .n----v--xg. -'gf --K .. -T-ri, - 11, H . ,et QP' ff .,1 , - ' ' .,....- . , -1 , , --- ,-- ' - ' .Q ,Y ' -'T 3, f -, 34, 1- .,- . - I' --- :R J... V, i-n-1'-Y :L A -,, -f ,, , Y , S, '... Mr-, ,,,... H -,--g,1.:-1-A-Aw fv-3.-,feet L ,---,,i,-Ne.- T29if : '- S t-- A- '- A -4 :' 2: -f - J ' L '- -4 'W J- ...fine -f f- fag - I- - 'L' '-' .,-- --5. 1--4 '-' -f -L' 47' ' sugar 1 - ,,,:,fNg-T, 3, xr -,u gn, A :T E- - 5 I gr f--1g:hg,, f-- - -,. F--f.,-4'-'N x 9, l ,., 5 ,,, N- - ' -' ,.- ' 11 .'..1'..g..aar ',.-,.f' -- ., E .. Qu. Q., Ni .r- Q4 .Q-fsiv-Q, , - 1 N--L -W . , . -8'-.. - I -3 Q 54- iib- --:ali rrfvhh .,4,f,.. ,,,..A.V -K' , Y - -.Q-5'-x -- L. SAT- ,.-I fm as . A..,,,- kl ',:, Af- ,5.4..-9, ff- ',.' 3 - A .... ' , . . 0 I I . , 1 - - 0 I I ' , . I . . . . g I I I - , . n 1 I I . F 7 7 ' O I O I U - - .. - . I . . . 0 . I . . . . . . . . . l I . 6