USS Marblehead (C-11)

History
USS Marblehead (C-11), port quarter view at anchor.
United States
Name:	Marblehead
Namesake:	Town of Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ordered:	7 September 1888
Awarded:	2 November 1889
Builder:	City Point Iron Works, Boston, Massachusetts
Cost:	$674,000 (contract price of hull and machinery)
Laid down:	October 1890
Launched:	11 August 1892
Completed:	11 May 1892
Acquired:	8 Jan 1894
Commissioned:	2 April 1894
Decommissioned:	21 August 1919
Reclassified:	PG-27, 7 July 1920
Struck:	5 August 1921
Identification:	Hull symbol:C-11 Hull symbol:PG-27
Fate:	sold for scrap, 5 August 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Montgomery-class cruiser
Type:	unprotected cruiser
Displacement:	2,072 long tons (2,105 t) (standard) 2,212 long tons (2,247 t) (full load)
Length:	269 ft 10 in (82.25 m)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Draft:	14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) (mean)
Installed power:	3 × Double expansion boilers 2 × Single expansion boilers 5,400 ihp (4,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines 2 × screws
Sail plan:	Schooner
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) 18.44 knots (34.15 km/h; 21.22 mph) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	30 officers 249 enlisted
Armament:	2 × 6 in (152 mm)/40 caliber guns 8 × 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns 6 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns 2 × Gatling guns 3 × 18 in (457 mm) Torpedo tubes
Armor:	Deck: ⁷⁄₁₆ in (11 mm) (slope) ⁵⁄₁₆ in (7.9 mm) (flat) Conning Tower: 2 in (51 mm)
General characteristics (1920)
Armament:	8 × 4 in (102 mm)/40 caliber guns 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns

The second USS Marblehead (C-11/PG-27) was a Montgomery-class unprotected cruiser in the United States Navy, authorized in the naval appropriations bill of September 7, 1888.Marblehead served in the Spanish–American War and World War I, and was the last ship of her class in service.

Marblehead was laid down in October 1890 by City Point Iron Works, Boston, Massachusetts; launched 11 August 1892; sponsored by Mrs. C. F. Allen; and commissioned 2 April 1894, Commander Charles O'Neil in command. She was named for the seaport Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Assigned to the North Atlantic Station, Marblehead departed New York 6 June 1894, for the Caribbean in response to a change of government in Nicaragua. The ship arrived in port 19 June at Bluefields and found that city to be the point of greatest danger. On 7 July, in response to dispatches from the American consul, she put ashore a landing party of Marines and bluejackets to protect American interests. Reinforced by a second party 31 July, this force remained ashore until 7 August. Five days later, Marblehead departed Bluefields to continue cruising the Caribbean, showing the flag in Latin American waters until 26 November, when she departed Port Royal, Jamaica, for Hampton Roads, Virginia, arriving on 6 December.

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