Cincinnati-class cruiser

USS Cincinnati
Class overview
Name	Cincinnati class
Builders	New York Navy Yard Norfolk Navy Yard
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	USS Olympia (C-6)
Succeeded by	Montgomery class
Cost	$1,100,000 each
Built	1889–1894
In service	1894–1920
In commission	1894–1919
Planned	2
Completed	2
Scrapped	2
General characteristics
Type	Protected cruiser
Displacement	3,183 long tons (3,234 t) (standard) 3,339 long tons (3,393 t) (full load)
Length	305 ft 9 in (93.19 m)
Beam	42 ft (13 m)
Draft	18 ft (5.5 m)
Installed power	6 × steam boilers 2 × vertical triple expansion engines 10,000 ihp (7,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 × screws
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h)
Range	8,652 nmi (16,024 km; 9,957 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	312
Armament	As built: 1 × 6 in (152 mm)/40 caliber gun 10 × 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns 8 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns 1 × Gatling gun 4 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 2.5 in (64 mm) (slope) 1 in (25 mm) (flat) Conning Tower: 2 in (51 mm) Gun Sponsons: 4 in (102 mm)
General characteristics (1903)
Installed power	8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 2 × vertical triple expansion engines 8,500 ihp (6,300 kW)
Propulsion	2 × screws
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h)
Armament	11 × 5 in (127 mm)/40 caliber guns 8 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns 1 × Gatling gun

The Cincinnati-class cruisers were two small protected cruisers built for the United States Navy in the early 1890s.^[1][2] They were smaller and more lightly armed and protected than most previous US cruisers, and were intended for commerce raiding.^[3] They may also be referred to as Raleigh-class cruisers, as Raleigh was launched and commissioned prior to Cincinnati.^[4]

The Cincinnati-class cruisers were authorized by an Act of Congress approved on 7 September 1888, in the same bill with New York, Olympia and the Montgomery class.^[2][5]