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Photo # NH 55170:  USS Cleveland underway in 1904

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19, later PG-33 and CL-21), 1903-1930

USS Cleveland, a 3200-ton Denver class protected cruiser, was built at Bath, Maine. Commissioned in November 1903 as the first of her class to be completed, she operated with the European Squadron and in U.S. and Caribbean waters during the next three and a half years. In mid-1907, Cleveland steamed to the Far East, by way of the Mediterranean Sea and Suez Canal, to join the Asiatic Fleet. At the end of this deployment, she crossed the Pacific to California and was laid up at the Mare Island Navy Yard between mid-1910 and mid-1912. The cruiser then began five years of service off Mexico and Central America.

With relations with Germany approaching a breakdown, Cleveland was transferred to the East Coast in March 1917 and soon began shipping protection patrols and convoy escort missions between the U.S. and the mid-Atlantic. Following the November 1918 Armistice that ended the First World War fighting, she returned to Central and South American waters, initially in the Caribbean area, and after February 1920 in the Pacific. Reclassified as a gunboat (PG-33) in July 1920 and as a light cruiser (CL-21) in August 1921, Cleveland remained active off Latin America until she was decommissioned at the beginning of November 1929. She was sold for scrapping in March 1930.

This page features, and provides links to, selected views concerning USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19, later PG-33 and CL-21).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19, later PG-33 and CL-21) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 55170

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    Underway in 1904.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100010

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    Photographed circa 1907, probably just before beginning her cruise to the Far East by way of the Suez Canal.

    Copied from the Album of Assistant Paymaster Francis J. Daly, by courtesy of Commander Thomas M. Daly, USN, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100004

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    In the "Dewey" Dry Dock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 14 January 1908.

    Copied from the Album of Assistant Paymaster Francis J. Daly, by courtesy of Commander Thomas M. Daly, USN, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 580 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 100006

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    In the "Dewey" Dry Dock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 14 January 1908.
    Note her decorated stern and the officer posed on the starboard propeller.

    Copied from the Album of Assistant Paymaster Francis J. Daly, by courtesy of Commander Thomas M. Daly, USN, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 560 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 73243

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 30 October 1915.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 74238-KN (color)

    USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19)

    Painting by an unidentified artist.

    Courtesy of Mr. Fred Bristol, 1971.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105172

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    Escorting a World War I convoy, 1918.
    The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.

    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 53KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99723

    USS Cleveland
    (CL-21), closest to camera,
    and
    USS Galveston (CL-19)

    Seen from USS Hannibal (AG-1), circa 1923, probably in Cuban waters.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 55171

    USS Cleveland
    (Cruiser # 19)

    Fitting out at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, circa 1903.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     


    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Cleveland (Cruiser # 19, later PG-33 and CL-21) -- Part II.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 10 September 2002
    New image added 6 December 2007