USS Olympia (C-6) - Wikipedia
网页USS Olympia (C-6/CA-15/CL-15/IX-40) is a protected cruiser that saw service with the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. She is currently a museum ship in Philadelphia.
Olympia - Independence Seaport Museum
网页Olympia, a nineteenth-century cruiser, was placed into service in February 1895 and is the oldest steel warship afloat in the world. She has called Philadelphia home since 1922, became a museum in 1957, and has been docked alongside Becuna at …
The USS Olympia: Largest Steel Warship Afloat
网页The Olympia, under Commodore George Dewey, steamed into Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, to engage the Spanish Navy at the start of the Spanish-American War. It was from the Olympia’s bridge that Dewey made his famous command to the ship’s captain, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridely.”
USS Olympia
网页OLYMPIA is one of the most significant vessels in United States history as she was the flagship of Commodore Dewey in his victory over Admiral Montojo's Spanish Squadrin at Manila Bay. The United States took a large step towards becoming a …
Tour The USS Olympia, The Oldest Steel Ship Afloat - TheTravel
网页2023年8月14日 · The USS Olympia is one of the oldest naval ships preserved today in the United States. The USS Olympia is a protected cruiser that played an important part in the Spanish-American War in 1898 when she served as a …
The USS Olympia (C-6) | Naval History Magazine - October 2000 …
网页Right or wrong, the Olympia led the Asiatic Squadron and demonstrated the naval might of the United States. She represented a stage of naval evolution between the steam ironclads of the Civil War and the steel-hulled dreadnoughts of World War I.
USS Olympia: Symbol of a Sea Change - HistoryNet
网页2014年4月30日 · The oldest steel warship still afloat, USS Olympia embodies the United States' historic transition into a global seapower.
USS Olympia (Cruiser #6, CA-15, CL-15, IX-40) - NHHC
网页Commissioned at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, on February 5, 1895, USS Olympia (Cruiser #6) departed to become the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet.
Olympia (Cruiser No. 6) - NHHC
网页2016年10月6日 · The first U.S. Navy ship named for the capital city of the state of Washington. (Cruiser No. 6: displacement 5,586; length 344'1"; beam 53'; draft 21'6"; speed 20 knots; complement 411; armament...
Olympia - National Maritime Historical Society
网页The world’s oldest steel warship afloat, the cruiser Olympia was launched in 1892. Olympia’s first historic role was that of flagship for Commodore George Dewey, firing the first shots of the Spanish-American War at the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.