US Armored Cruiser "California"
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Series 9534 Built at San Francisco by Union Iron Works. 502 feet long by 69 feet 6 1/2 inches wide. Mean draft 24 feet 1 inch. Displacement 13,680 tons. Speed 22 knots; horsepower 22,000. Launched April 28, 1904. Complement of 41 officers and 791 men. Two military masts and four funnels. Main battery - Four 8-in BLR in turrets, and fourteen 6-in RF broadside. Secondary battery - Eighteen 3-in RF, twelve 3-lb SA, two 1-lb RF, two 3-in F, four 30 caliber A, two 30 caliber M |
