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The first USS ''Chicago'' (later CA-14) was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, the largest of the original three authorized by Congress for the "New Navy". One of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships. She was launched on 5 December 1885 by John Roach & Sons of Chester, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Edith Cleborne (daughter of Navy Medical Director Cuthbert J. Cleborne) and commissioned on 17 April 1889, Captain Henry Bellows Robeson in command. ==Design and construction== ''Chicago'' was ordered as part of the "ABCD" ships, the others being the cruisers and and the dispatch vessel . These were the first steel-hulled ships of the "New Navy". All were ordered from the same shipyard, John Roach & Sons of Chester, Pennsylvania. However, when Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney initially refused to accept ''Dolphin'', claiming her design was defective, the Roach yard went bankrupt and ''Chicago''s completion was delayed about three years while Roach reorganized as the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works.〔〔 Like the other "ABCD" ships, ''Chicago'' was built with a sail rig to increase cruising range. ''Chicago'' was built with a displacement of at an overall length of and at the perpendiculars. Her beam was with a draft of . She was had fourteen 100psi boilers that ran two compound overhead beam steam engines that producing to turn her two screws and achive a speed of . She was also rigged for sails in a Schooner configuration. ''Chicago'' was capable of carrying of coal. ''Chicago''s original armament consisted of four 8-inch (203 mm)/30 caliber Mark 2 guns,〔(DiGiulian, Tony, US 8"/30 guns at Navweaps.com )〕 eight 6-inch (152 mm)/30 cal Mark 2 guns, two 5-inch (127 mm)/31 cal Mark 1 guns,〔(DiGiulian, Tony, US 5"/31 guns at Navweaps.com )〕 two 6-pounder guns, four 3-pounder guns, two 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon, and two .45 caliber (11.4 mm) Gatling guns. She had of armor on her gun shields, on her deck, and on her conning tower. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Chicago (1885)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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