USS Maryland (ACR-8)

USS Frederick (ACR-8), ex-USS Maryland, starboard view, 1919.
History
United States
Name:	Maryland
Namesake:	State of Maryland City of Frederick, Maryland
Ordered:	7 June 1900
Builder:	Newport News Drydock & ShipbuildingCo., Newport News, Virginia
Cost:	$3,775,000 (contract price of hull and machinery)
Laid down:	29 October 1901
Launched:	12 September 1903
Sponsored by:	Miss F. Pardee
Commissioned:	18 April 1905
Decommissioned:	14 February 1922
Renamed:	Frederick, 9 November 1916
Reclassified:	CA-8, 17 July 1920
Struck:	13 November 1929
Identification:	Hull symbol: ACR-8 Hull symbol: CA-8
Fate:	sold for scrap, 11 February 1930
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser
Displacement:	13,680 long tons (13,900 t) (standard) 15,138 long tons (15,381 t) (full load)
Length:	503 ft 11 in (153.59 m) oa 502 ft (153 m) pp
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft:	24 ft 1 in (7.34 m) (mean)
Installed power:	16 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 23,000 ihp (17,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines 2 × screws
Speed:	22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) 22.41 kn (41.50 km/h; 25.79 mph) (Speed on Trials)
Complement:	80 officers 745 enlisted 64 Marines
Armament:	4 × 8 in (203 mm)/40 caliber Mark 5 breech-loading rifles (BL)(2×2) 14 × 6 in (152 mm)/50 cal Mark 6 BL rifles 18 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal rapid-fire guns 12 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) Driggs-Schroeder guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns 2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 6 in (152 mm) (top & waterline) 5 in (127 mm) (bottom) Deck: 1 1⁄2 in (38 mm) - 6 in (amidships) 4 in (102 mm) (forward & aft) Barbettes: 6 in Turrets: 6 - 6 1⁄2 in (165 mm) Conning Tower: 9 in (229 mm)
General characteristics (Pre-1911 Refit)
Installed power:	8 × Modified Niclausse boilers, 12 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Armament:	4 × 8 in/45 cal Mark 6 BL rifles (2×2) 14 × 6 in/50 cal Mark 6 BL rifles 18 × 3 in/50 cal rapid-fire guns 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns 2 × 18 in submerged torpedo tubes
General characteristics (Pre-1921 Refit)
Armament:	4 × 8 in/45 caliber Mark 6 BL rifles (2×2) 14 × 6 in/50 Mark 6 caliber BL rifles 10 × 3 in/50 caliber rapid-fire guns 2 × 3 in/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes

The second USS Maryland (ACR-8/CA-8), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 8", and later renamed Frederick, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser.

She was laid down on 7 October 1901 by the Newport News Drydock & ShipbuildingCo., Newport News, Virginia, launched on 12 September 1903, sponsored by Miss Jennie Scott Waters; and commissioned on 18 April 1905, Captain Royal R. Ingersoll in command.

In October 1905, following shakedown, Maryland joined the Atlantic Fleet for operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean, where she took part in the 1906 winter maneuvers off Cuba. The next summer, she conducted a training cruise for Massachusetts Naval Militiamen, and then readied for transfer to the Pacific. Departing Newport on 8 September 1906, she sailed – via San Francisco and Hawaii — for the Asiatic Station, where she remained until October 1907. She then returned to San Francisco and for the next decade she cruised throughout the Pacific, participating in survey missions to Alaska (1912 and 1913); carrying United States Secretary of State Knox to Tokyo for the funeral of Emperor Meiji Tenno (September 1912); steaming off the Central American coast to aid, if necessary, Americans endangered by political turmoil in Mexico and Nicaragua (1913, 1914, and 1916); and making numerous training cruises to Hawaii and the South-Central Pacific.