File:US Cruiser PENNSYLVANIA entering the Seattle Harbor during the Golden Potlatch, July 15-20, 1912 (TRANSPORT 909).jpg

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(Armored Cruiser No. 4: displacement 13, 400 tons; length 503'11"; beam 69'7"; draft 24'1"; speed 22 knots; complement 829; armament 4 8-inch guns, 14 6-inch guns, 18 3-inch guns, 2 18-inch torpedo tubes; class Pennsylvania) Laid down as PENNSYLVANIA 7 August 1901 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia; launched 22 August 1903 and commissioned 9 March 1905, Capt. Thomas C. McLean in command. PENNSYLVANIA operated on the East Coast and in the Caribbean until 8 September 1906 when she cleared Newport for a year on the Asiatic Station, returning to San Francisco 27 September 1907 for west coast duty. She visited Chile and Peru in 1910. During the winter of 1910-1911, a plane landed on and took off from a platform constructed on her afterdeck, opening the era of naval aviation. While in reserve at Puget Sound between 1 July 1911 and 30 May 1913, the cruiser trained naval militia. She was renamed PITTSBURGH 27 August 1912 to free the name PENNSYLVANIA for a new battleship. She served a wide-ranging career following the name change. Decommissioned 10 July 1931, she was sold for scrapping under the terms of the London Treaty to Union Shipbuilding, Baltimore, Md., 21 December 1931. (Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p7/pittsburgh-ii.htm )

• Subjects (LCSH): Pennsylvania (Cruiser); Cruisers (Warships)--United States--Washington (State)--Seattle