C-6 Olympia

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Olympia, [CL].

Builder: Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Launch date: 05 November 1892.

Commission date: 05 February 1895.

Decommission date: 09 December 1922.

Displacement ( tons ): 5.676 standard, 6.694 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 104,88 x 16 x 6,55

Main machinery: 2 x vertical triple-expansion steam engines, 6 x boilers ( 17.000 hp ), 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 20.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 10 knots.

Complement: 428 ( 33 officers ).

Guns: 4 x 203mm/35 Mk4, 10 x 127mm/40 Mk2, 14 x Driggs-Schroeder 57mm, 6 x 37mm, 4 x Gatling guns.

Torpedoes: 6 x 450mm tubes firing Whitehead Mk1 torpedoes.

Military lift: 1.060 tm of coal.

Comment: Originally numbered as C6, later reclassified as CA15, CL15, and finally IX40. Famous for being the flagship of Commodore Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American war of 1898. Currently a museum at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. .

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