USS Olympia (C-6)
USS Olympia (C-6), port bow, 10 February 1902.
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| Name: | Olympia |
| Namesake: | The City of Olympia, Washington |
| Ordered: | 7 September 1888 |
| Builder: | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 17 June 1891 |
| Launched: | 5 November 1892 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss Ann B. Dickie |
| Commissioned: | 5 February 1895 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 November 1899 |
| Commissioned: | January 1902 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 April 1906 |
| Commissioned: | 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 December 1922 |
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| Refit: | 1901, 1902, 1916 |
| Struck: | 11 September 1957 |
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| Nickname(s): | "Queen of the Pacific", "The Winged O" |
| Fate: | Restored as Museum Ship |
| Status: | Museum ship. |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Protected cruiser |
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| Length: | 344 ft 1 in (104.88 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft (16 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Installed power: | 17,000 ihp (13,000 kW) |
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| Speed: | 21.7 knots (40.2 km/h; 25.0 mph) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,169 short tons (1,060 t) coal (maximum) |
| Complement: | 33 officers and 395 enlisted |
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| General characteristics (1917) | |
| Armament: | 10 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 cal Mark 8 guns (10×1) |
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USS Olympia (C-6) at the Independence Seaport Museum in 2007.
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| Location | Penn's Landing Marina, South Columbus Blvd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°56′37″N 75°8′27″W / 39.94361°N 75.14083°WCoordinates: 39°56′37″N 75°8′27″W / 39.94361°N 75.14083°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1892 |
| Built by | Union Iron Works of San Francisco |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000692 |
| Added to NRHP | 15 October 1966 |
USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after returning to the U.S. in 1899, but was returned to active service in 1902.
She served until World War I as a training ship for naval cadets and as a floating barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1917, she was mobilized again for war service, patrolling the American coast and escorting transport ships.
After World War I, Olympia participated in the 1919 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and conducted cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas to promote peace in the unstable Balkan countries. In 1921, the ship carried the remains of World War I's Unknown Soldier from France to Washington, D.C., where his body was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Olympia was decommissioned for the last time in December 1922 and placed in reserve.
In 1957, the U.S. Navy ceded title to the Cruiser Olympia Association, which restored the ship to her 1898 configuration. Since then, Olympia has been a museum ship in Philadelphia, where it is now part of the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia is the oldest steel US warship still afloat. However, the Museum has been unable to fund essential maintenance for the aging vessel and attempts to secure outside funding have failed. Therefore, the current steward, under direction of the U.S. Navy, has put the ship up for availability to new stewards. It will take an estimated ten million dollars to restore Olympia to a stable condition.
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