USS Cincinnati (C-7)

USS Cincinnati (C-7)
History
United States
Name:	Cincinnati
Namesake:	City of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordered:	7 September 1888
Builder:	New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Cost:	$1,100,000
Laid down:	29 January 1890
Launched:	10 November 1892
Sponsored by:	Miss S. Mosby
Commissioned:	16 June 1894
Decommissioned:	20 April 1919
Struck:	5 August 1921
Identification:	Hull symbol:C-7
Fate:	sold for scrap 04 August 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Cincinnati-class protected cruiser
Displacement:	3,183 long tons (3,234 t) (standard) 3,339 long tons (3,393 t) (full load)
Length:	305 ft 9 in (93.19 m)
Beam:	42 ft (13 m)
Draft:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power:	6 × steam boilers 10,000 ihp (7,500 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines 2 × screws
Sail plan:	Schooner
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) 19.91 kn (22.91 mph; 36.87 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	32 officers 270 enlisted
Armament:	1 × 6 in (152 mm)/40 caliber guns 10 × 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns 8 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns 4 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) (slope) 1 in (25 mm) (flat) Conning Tower: 2 in (51 mm) Gun Sponsons: 4 in (100 mm)
General characteristics (1914)
Installed power:	8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW) 7,070 ihp (5,270 kW) (ihp on trials)
Armament:	11 × 5 in (130 mm)/40 caliber guns 6 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns

USS Cincinnati (C-7) was a protected cruiser and the lead ship of the Cincinnati-class cruiser for the United States Navy. She was launched on 10 November 1892 by New York Navy Yard; sponsored by Miss S. Mosby; and commissioned on 16 June 1894, Captain Henry Glass in command. She was the second ship to be named after Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cincinnati's first cruise, along the east coast, and then in the Caribbean, found her enforcing neutrality laws at Tampa and Key West during the Cuban Revolution from September 1895 – January 1896. From September 1896-July 1897, she served in the eastern Mediterranean, returning to the South Atlantic Station in September 1897. In April 1898, opening month of the Spanish–American War, Cincinnati, commanded by Captain Colby Mitchell Chester joined the blockade off Havana, Cuba, and bombarded Matanzas. The next month, she scouted throughout the West Indies searching for the Spanish fleet known to be approaching Cuba.

At the close of May, Cincinnati came north for repairs, returning to the Caribbean for occupation duty in August. She convoyed troops from Guantanamo Bay to Puerto Rico, patrolled off San Juan, made a reconnaissance of Culebra Island, and escorted the captured Spanish flagship Infanta Maria Teresa until the prize of war sank en route to Norfolk from Cuba. On 8–9 August, Cincinnati provided illumination with her searchlights and naval gunfire to support bluejackets defending the Cape San Juan Light from a Spanish ground assault in the Battle of Fajardo. After joining in salvage operations at Santiago in November, she sailed north, and from 14 February 1899 – 2 December 1901 was out of commission at New York Navy Yard for extensive repairs.

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