USS Newark (C-1)

History
USS Newark port side, 1891.
United States
Name:	Newark
Namesake:	City of Newark, New Jersey
Builder:	William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia
Laid down:	12 June 1888
Launched:	19 March 1890
Sponsored by:	Miss Annie Boutelle
Commissioned:	2 February 1891
Decommissioned:	16 June 1912
Struck:	26 June 1913
Identification:	Hull symbol:C-1
Fate:	7 September 1926, sold for scrap
General characteristics
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	4,083 long tons (4,149 t)
Length:	311 ft 6 in (94.95 m) lwl 328 ft (100 m) oa
Beam:	49 ft 2 in (14.99 m)
Draft:	18 ft 8 in (5.69 m) (mean) 22 ft 8 in (6.91 m) (max)
Installed power:	4 × boilers 2 × horizontal triple expansion engines 8,500 ihp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range:	3,922 nmi (7,264 km; 4,513 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	34 officers, 350 enlisted men
Armament:	12 × 6-inch (152 mm)/30 caliber Mark 3 guns 4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns 4 × .45 caliber (11.4 mm) Gatling guns
Armor:	Gun shields: 2 in (51 mm) Main deck: 3 in (76 mm) Conning Tower: 3 in (76 mm)

The first USS Newark (C-1) was a United States Navy protected cruiser, the eighth protected cruiser launched by the United States. In design, she succeeded the "ABC" cruisers Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago with better protection, higher speed, and a uniform 6-inch gun armament. Four additional protected cruisers (C-2 through C-5) were launched for the USN prior to Newark.

She was laid down by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia on 12 June 1888, launched on 19 March 1890, sponsored by Miss Annie Boutelle, the daughter of Representative Charles A. Boutelle of Maine, and commissioned on 2 February 1891, Captain Silas Casey III in command.

Newark was designed in 1885 by the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair and Bureau of Steam Engineering, based on specifications developed by a special advisory board convened by Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney. The new board was convened when Whitney felt the Naval Advisory Board's design was inadequate.Newark's uniform main armament of twelve 6-inch guns resulted from the need to mount guns in sponsons to increase their arc of fire. Rear Admiral Edward Simpson, president of the Naval Advisory Board, commented that it was impossible to mount 8-inch guns on sponsons in a 4,000-ton ship. She also had a complete armored deck in accordance with European practice.

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