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The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser.
The cruiser was rapidly taking on water and the captain ordered the crew to abandon ship. Of a crew of 1,183, six Sailors were lost in the sinking. San Diego went down between 100 and 110 ft....
Shortly after 11:00 AM on July 19, 1918, the Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser USS San Diego (ACR-6) – formerly known as the USS California – was rocked by an explosion on the ship’s port side, near the port engine room. Within 30 minutes, she was at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
The new 14,000-ton" armored cruiser California (ACR 6), just completed at the Union Iron Works, will leave early this morning for the Santa Barbara Channel where her builders must demonstrate to the satisfaction of Uncle Sam that the latest addition to the navy is all the specifications call for.
USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6), 1907-1918. Renamed San Diego in 1914. USS California, a 13,680-ton Pennsylvania class armored cruiser, was built at San Francisco, California. She was commissioned in August 1907, and spent the next ten years serving in the Pacific.
ACR-6 USS California / USS San Diego. Photo of the California with her original fore mast in Bellingham, Washington, 9 April 1908. Length: 503 feet 11 inches. Breadth: 69 feet 7 inches. Mean Draft: 24 feet 1 inch. Displacement: 13,680 tons. Machinery: 29,381 IHP; Babcock boilers, 2 Vertical, Inverted, Triple Expansion Engines, 2 screws.
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USS California (ACR-6) was a Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser built in 1907 at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California. She originally served in the Pacific and was on duty during civil unrest in Nicaragua and the Mexican Civil War.
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2016-3512.Shows the second USS California (ACR-6 or Armored Cruiser 6) in harbor, small launch alongside.Built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, in 1904, commissioned in 1907. Had two coal burning, four cylinder, triple expansion steam engines.