Fighting the Hun on the U. S. S. Huntington e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The U. S. S. Huntington is a first-class armored cruiser, built and placed in commission at Newport News, Va., at a complete cost of$6,- 839,000. Her keel was laid down in April, 1903. She is 502 feet long and has a beam of 69 1-2 feet, with a displacement of 13,680 tons, horsepower 26,135, and a speed of 22.15 knots. Her complement is 878 officers and crew, and as a flagship she carries 921. Her original equipment consisted of four 8-inch rifles in two turrets, one forward and one aft; fourteen 6-inch rapid fire guns, eighteen 3 inch rapid fire guns, and two 18-inch submerged torpedo tubes.<br><br>When launched she was christened the U. S. S. West Virginia, and was placed in full commission on the twenty-fifth day of February 1905. For a period of one year she man-oeuvered with the Atlantic Fleet and cruised in the Gulf of Mexico and West Indian waters. Theodore Roosevelt made a short trip on her at that time, and the coal shovel he used while on a visit to the firerooms still hangs in an engine room hatch as a souvenir of the occasion.