The "Olympia." The unarmored cruiser "Olympia" is Admiral Dewey's flagship, and her brilliant part in the naval ...
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Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection
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BANC PIC 1905.17500.37:071--ALB
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The Bancroft Library
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Full title: The "Olympia." The unarmored cruiser "Olympia" is Admiral Dewey's flagship, and her brilliant part in the naval battle before Manila shows the wisdom of giving her a heavy armament, though her displacement (5,586 tons) is far below that of the other two fast cruisers, the "Minneapolis" and the "Columbia," built at the same time. She carries four 8-inch and ten 5-inch rifles (the latter rapid-fire), besides twenty-four guns of smaller calibers and rapid-fire pattern. Her dimensions are as follows: length, 340 ft.; breadth, 53 ft.; mean draft 20.7 ft. Enormous engines of 17,313 indicated horse-power enable the "Olympia" to steam 21.7 knots an hour, and in every detail of her construction are embodied the latest improvements in marine architecture which could be utilized in a cruiser of her class. With 34 officers and 395 men aboard she steamed into the Bay of Manila, over mines and past forts -- to assail the Spanish fleet, and in the terrific battle which ensued her staunchness and efficiency fully came up to the expectations of her designers and constructors. The "Olympia"'s keel was laid in 1891, and her cost was $1,796,000.
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