| The second Maryland was laid down by the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News Virginia, 7 October 1901; launched
12 September 1903; sponsored by Miss Jennie Scott Waters; and commissioned
18 April 1905, Capt. R. R. Ingersoll in command. |
| In October 1905, following shakedown, Maryland joined
the Atlantic Fleet for operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean,
where she took part in the 1906 winter maneuvers off Cuba. The next summer
she conducted a training cruise for Massachusetts Naval Militiamen, and then
readied for transfer to the Pacific. Departing Newport 8 September 1906,
she sailed, via San Francisco and Hawaii, for the Asiatic station where she
remained until October 1907. She then returned to San Francisco and for the
next decade she cruised throughout the Pacific, participating in survey missions
to Alaska (1912 and 1913); carrying Secretary of State Knox to Tokyo for
the funeral of Emperor Meiji Tenno (September 1912); steaming off the Central
American coast to aid, if necessary, Americans endangered by political turmoil
in Mexico and Nicaragua (1913, 1914 and 1916); and making numerous training
cruises to Hawaii and the South-Central Pacific. |
| When Congress declared war on Germany, 6 April 1917, the armored
cruiser, renamed Frederick, 9 November 1916, was en route from Puget
Sound to San Francisco. Taking on men and supplies at the latter port, she
got underway for the Atlantic. Joined by South Dakota (ACR-9),
Pittsburg (ACR-4) and Pueblo (ACR-7) at Colon, Panama, on 29
May 1917; thence she proceeded through January 1918 to patrol the southeastern
Atlantic off the coast of South America. On 1 February she was assigned to
escort duty in the North Atlantic and until the signing of the Armistice
she convoyed troopships east of the 37th meridian. By 20 November she was
attached to the Cruiser and Destroyer Force and before mid-1919 had completed
six round trips returning troops from France. Detached from that duty, she
entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was briefly placed in reduced
commission. |
| Frederick crossed the Atlantic again, carrying
the U.S. Olympic Team to Antwerp, Belgium, as she conducted a naval reservist
training cruise in July of 1920. At the end of that year she returned to
the Pacific Fleet. Serving as flagship of the Train, Pacific Fleet, for the
next year, she conducted only one lengthy cruise, to South America in March
1921. Operations off the west coast took up the remainder of her active duty
career and on 14 February 1922 she decommissioned and entered the Reserve
Fleet at Mare Island. She was struck form the Naval Register 13 November
1929 and sold 11 February 1930. |
Displacement, 13,680; Length 503'11"; Beam, 69'7"; Draft, 26';
Speed 22.4 knots; Complement, 890; Armament, four 8", fourteen 6", eighteen
3", four 3-pdrs., tow 18" torpedo tubes |
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