USS Tennessee (ACR-10)

USS Tennessee (ACR-10), at anchor ca. 1907.
History
United States
Name:	Tennessee (1903-1916) Memphis (1916)
Namesake:	State of Tennessee City of Memphis, Tennessee
Ordered:	1 July 1902
Awarded:	9 February 1903
Builder:	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cost:	$4,035,000 (contract price of hull and machinery)
Laid down:	20 June 1903
Launched:	3 December 1904
Sponsored by:	Miss Annie K. Frazier
Commissioned:	17 July 1906
Renamed:	Memphis, 25 May 1916
Struck:	17 December 1917
Identification:	Hull symbol:ACR-10
Fate:	Wrecked, 29 August 1916 Sold for scrap, 17 January 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tennessee-class armored cruiser
Displacement:	14,500 long tons (14,733 t) (standard) 15,712 long tons (15,964 t) (full load)
Length:	504 ft 5 in (153.75 m) oa 502 ft (153 m) pp
Beam:	72 ft 10 1⁄2 in (22.212 m)
Draft:	25 ft (7.6 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 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) 22.16 knots (41.04 km/h; 25.50 mph) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	83 officers 804 enlisted 64 Marines
Armament:	4 × 10 in (250 mm)/40 caliber Mark 3 breech-loading rifles (2x2) 16 × 6 in (150 mm)/50 caliber Mark 8 breech-loading rifles (16x1) 22 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber rapid-fire guns (22x1) 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns 4 × 21 in (530 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 5 in (13 cm) Deck: 1 1⁄2–4 in (38–102 mm) (amidships) 3 in (76 mm) (forward & aft) Barbettes: 4–7 in (100–180 mm) Turrets: 5–9 in (130–230 mm) Conning Tower: 9 in (230 mm)

The second USS Tennessee (ACR-10), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 10", and later renamed Memphis, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class.

She was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia on 20 June 1903, launched on 3 December 1904, sponsored by Ms. Annie K. Frazier (daughter of Governor James B. Frazier of Tennessee and later the foundress of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy), and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 17 July 1906, Captain Albert Gleaves Berry in command.

The new armored cruiser departed Hampton Roads on 8 November 1906 as escort for Louisiana in which President Theodore Roosevelt had embarked for a cruise to Panama to check on the progress of work constructing the Panama Canal. After a brief visit to Puerto Rico on the return voyage, the warships arrived back at Hampton Roads on 26 November.

Following a yard period for repairs, Tennessee left Hampton Roads on 16 April 1907 for the Jamestown Exposition, held from 7 to 11 June 1907, to commemorate the tricentennial of the founding of the first English settlement in America.

On 14 June, Tennessee sailed for Europe in company with Washington and reached Royan, France on the 23rd for duty with the Special Service Squadron. She returned home in August but departed Hampton Roads on 12 October for the Pacific, where she became flagship for the second division of the Pacific Fleet.