USS Washington (ACR-11)

USS Washington (ACR-11) off Seattle, Washington, with the Olympic Mountains in the distance, 1908.
History
United States
Name:	Washington (1903-1916) Seattle (1916-1946)
Namesake:	State of Washington City of Seattle, Washington
Ordered:	1 July 1902
Awarded:	10 February 1903
Builder:	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Cost:	$4,035,000 (contract price of hull and machinery)
Laid down:	23 Septamber 1903
Launched:	18 March 1905
Sponsored by:	Miss Helen Stewart Wilson
Commissioned:	7 August 1906
Decommissioned:	28 June 1946
Renamed:	Seattle, 9 November 1916
Reclassified:	CA-11, 17 July 1920 "Unclassified", 1 July 1931 IX-39, 17 February 1941
Struck:	19 July 1946
Identification:	Hull symbol:ACR-11 Hull symbol:CA-11 Hull symbol:IX-39
Fate:	sold for scrap 3 December 1946
General characteristics (as built)
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) 22.27 knots (41.24 km/h; 25.63 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 22 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber rapid-fire guns 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)
General characteristics (1921)
Armament:	4 × 10 in (250 mm)/40 caliber Mark 3 breech-loading rifles (2×2) 16 × 6 in (150 mm)/50 caliber Mark 8 breech-loading rifles 2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns 4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns 4 × 21 in (530 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
General characteristics (1935)
Armament:	4 × 10 in (250 mm)/40 caliber Mark 3 breech-loading rifles (2×2) 4 × 6 in (150 mm)/50 caliber Mark 8 breech-loading rifles (on board) (12 × in reserve) 12 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft guns (in reserve) 2 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns (in reserve) 4 × 21 in (530 mm) submerged torpedo tubes

The seventh USS Washington (ACR-11/CA-11/IX-39), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 11", and later renamed Seattle and reclassified CA-11 and IX-39, was a United States Navy Tennessee-class armored cruiser. She was laid down on 23 September 1903 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 18 March 1905, sponsored by Miss Helen Stewart Wilson, daughter of United States Senator John L. Wilson of Washington state, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 7 August 1906, Captain James D. Adams in command.

Washington was fitted out there until 1 November when she got underway for Hampton Roads, whence she departed a week later as an escort for Louisiana which was then carrying President Theodore Roosevelt to Panama for an inspection of progress of work constructing the Panama Canal. During that voyage, the armored cruiser touched at Hampton Roads and Piney Point, Maryland; Colón, Panama; Chiriqui Lagoon; and Mona Passage before she returned to Newport News on 26 November. She headed back toward the Delaware Capes on 8 December, arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on the 11th, and remained there undergoing repairs into the spring of 1907.