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    USS Brooklyn (ACR-3/CA-3) was the third United States Navy armored cruiser, the only one to be named at commissioning for a city rather than a state. Ordered...
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  • American Civil War. USS Brooklyn (ACR-3), was a cruiser commissioned in 1896 and a flagship in the Spanish–American War. USS Brooklyn (CL-40), was a light...
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    USS New York (ACR-2/CA-2) was the second United States Navy armored cruiser so designated; the first was the ill-fated Maine, which was soon redesignated...
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    Driggs-Schroeder guns included USS Texas (1892), USS Maine (ACR-1), USS Olympia (C-6), USS New York (ACR-2), and USS Brooklyn (ACR-3). Olympia is preserved with...
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    Treaty. These ships were ordered in fiscal years 1900 (ACR-4 to ACR-6) and 1901 (ACR-7 to ACR-9) as part of the naval buildup touched off by the Spanish–American...
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    (ex-ACR-2) (CA-3) Brooklyn (ex-ACR-3) Pennsylvania class (CA-4) Pittsburgh (ex-ACR-4) (CA-5) Huntington (ex-ACR-5) (CA-6) skipped (CA-7) Pueblo (ex-ACR-7)...
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    armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) on 6 September 1901, but served in her only for a little over a month, being detached to battleship USS Kentucky (BB-6)...
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    The first USS West Virginia (ACR-5/CA-5), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 5", and later renamed Huntington, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class...
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    Daniel E. & Koehler, R. B. (2006). "Question 20/04: Artifacts from USS Maine (ACR-1)". Warship International. XLIII (2): 131–33. ISSN 0043-0374. Friedman...
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    The 8"/35 caliber gun Mark 3 and Mark 4 (spoken "eight-inch-thirty-five--caliber") were used for the main batteries of the United States Navy's first...
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