USS St. Louis (C-20)
USS St. Louis (C-20), off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 14 September 1917.
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United States | |
Name | St. Louis |
Namesake | City of St. Louis, Missouri |
Ordered | 7 June 1900 |
Awarded | 11 March 1901 |
Builder | Neafie & Levy Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Cost | $2,740,000 (contract price of hull and machinery) |
Laid down | 31 July 1902 |
Launched | 6 May 1905 |
Sponsored by | Miss Gladys Bryant Smith |
Commissioned | 18 August 1906 |
Decommissioned | 3 March 1922 |
Reclassified | CA-18, 17 July 1920 |
Stricken | 20 March 1930 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap on 13 August 1930 |
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General characteristics (as built)[1][2] | |
Class and type | St. Louis-class protected cruiser |
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Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
Draft | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) (mean) |
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The USS St. Louis (C-20/CA-18), was the
Service history
Pre-war
Assigned to the
Decommissioned on 3 May 1910, St. Louis was recommissioned, in reserve, on 7 October 1911 at the
Detached from the Reserve Fleet on 10 July 1916, St. Louis departed Puget Sound on 21 July for Honolulu. Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 29 July, she commenced her next duty assignment as tender, Submarine Division Three, Pacific Fleet, with additional duty as station ship, Pearl Harbor. When it became evident that the crew of the interned German sloop Geier intended to scuttle their ship, an armed party from St. Louis boarded the ship on 4 February 1917 and seized her. Geier subsequently served the United States as Schurz.[5]
World War I
Placed in reduced commission on 6 April 1917, as the
St. Louis's first convoy duty began on 17 June 1917 when she departed
Together with the USS Huntington she left Halifax on 30 October 1917 carrying members of a high-level U.S. Commission to confer with the European Allies. Escorted by USS Balch and other British and American vessels she arrived in Plymouth on the evening of 7 November.[6]
Post-war
After the
Designated CA-18 on 17 July 1920 and assigned to post-war duty with the
She departed
Decommissioning and fate
On 11 November, St. Louis arrived at Philadelphia where, on completion of pre-inactivation overhaul, she was decommissioned on 3 March 1922. In reserve until struck from the Navy List on 20 March 1930, St. Louis's hulk was sold for scrap on 13 August in accordance with the provisions of the London Naval Treaty and Second London Naval Treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament.[5]
References
- ^ "Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels". US Naval Department. 1 January 1914. pp. 32–35. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ a b Toppan, Andrew (8 September 1996). "St. Louis large protected cruisers". US Cruisers List: Protected Cruisers and Peace Cruisers. Hazegray.org. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Ships' Data, U. S. Naval Vessels". US Naval Department. 1 July 1921. pp. 46–53. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ "St. Louis III (Cruiser No. 20)". NHHC. 1902-07-31. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "St. Louis (Cruiser No. 20) IV". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. 8 June 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ Report on American War Mission to Great Britain and France; 15 Dec, 1917; Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, Volume 1: 334-83
Bibliography
- Sieche, Erwin F. (1990). "Austria-Hungary's Last Visit to the USA". Warship International. XXVII (2): 142–164. ISSN 0043-0374.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS St. Louis (C-20) at NavSource Naval History