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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Birmingham''''' was one of four [[Chester Class Cruiser (1907)|Chester class]] light cruisers completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Birmingham''''' was one of three [[Chester Class Cruiser (1907)|''Chester'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
 
''Birmingham'' launched on 29 May 1907; sponsored by Mrs L. Underwood; and commissioned on 11 April 1908, Commander [[Burns Tracy Walling]] in command.
 
''Birmingham'' launched on 29 May 1907; sponsored by Mrs L. Underwood; and commissioned on 11 April 1908, Commander [[Burns Tracy Walling]] in command.

Revision as of 16:01, 16 November 2014

U.S.S. Birmingham (1907)
Hull Number: CL-2
Builder: Fore River[1]
Ordered: Act of 27 Apr, 1904[2]
Laid down: 14 Aug, 1905[3]
Launched: 29 May, 1907[4]
Commissioned: 11 Apr, 1908[5]
Decommissioned: 1 Dec, 1923[6]
Sold: 13 May, 1930[7]
U.S.S. Birmingham was one of three Chester class light cruisers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Birmingham launched on 29 May 1907; sponsored by Mrs L. Underwood; and commissioned on 11 April 1908, Commander Burns Tracy Walling in command.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 155.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Cruisers. p. 450.

Bibliography


Chester Class Light Cruiser
  Chester Birmingham Salem  
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