USS Atlanta (1884)

USS Atlanta in 1891
History
United States
Name:	Atlanta
Namesake:	Atlanta, Georgia
Laid down:	8 November 1883
Launched:	9 October 1884
Sponsored by:	Jessie Lincoln
Commissioned:	19 July 1886
Decommissioned:	September 1895
Recommissioned:	15 September 1900
Decommissioned:	23 March 1912
Struck:	24 April 1912
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 10 June 1912
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	3,189 long tons (3,240 t)
Length:	283 ft 0 in (86.26 m)
Beam:	42 ft 2 in (12.85 m)
Draft:	17 ft 0 in (5.18 m)
Installed power:	8 × boilers 1 × horizontal compound engine 3,500 ihp (2,600 kW)
Propulsion:	Sails (as built) 1 × shaft
Speed:	16.3 kn (18.8 mph; 30.2 km/h) on trials, 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) designed
Range:	3,390 nmi (6,280 km; 3,900 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	284
Armament:	2 × 8-inch (203 mm)/30 caliber Mark 1 guns 6 × 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 2 guns 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon 2 × .45 caliber (11.4 mm) Gatling guns
Armor:	Barbettes: 2 in (51 mm) Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) Conning tower: 2 in (51 mm)
Notes:	One of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships

The second USS Atlanta was a protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Boston as the Atlanta class, in others as the Boston class.

Atlanta was laid down on 8 November 1883 at Chester, Pennsylvania by John Roach & Sons; launched on 9 October 1884; sponsored by Miss Jessie Lincoln, the daughter of Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln and granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 19 July 1886, Captain Francis M. Bunce in command.

Atlanta was ordered as part of the "ABCD" ships, the others being the cruisers Boston and Chicago and the dispatch vessel Dolphin. All were ordered from the same shipyard, John Roach & Sons of Chester, Pennsylvania. However, when Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney initially refused to accept Dolphin, claiming her design was defective, the Roach yard went bankrupt and Atlanta was completed at the New York Navy Yard, which had little experience with steel-hulled ships.

As-built armament included two 8-inch (203 mm)/30 caliber Mark 1 guns, six 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 2 guns, two 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) rapid fire guns, two 3-pounder (47 mm (1.85 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon, two 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) Hotchkiss revolving cannon, and two .45 caliber (11.4 mm) Gatling guns. The 8-inch guns were initially in open barbettes with gun shields added later.

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