Update: USS New York 1891

The first USN Armoured Cruiser: The USS New York, later Saratoga, is certainly not as well-known as the aircraft carrier that fought in ww2 “lady sara”, but she will remains the first of a kind, the first armoured cruiser built in the USA (ACR2). She was born USS New York and “ACR1” was given to USS Maine, reclassified later as a small battleship. For a young navy forging out a new fleet of modern ships equal to European standards, USS New York was every bit a success. She served also for quite long, ending her career in the Philippines, scuttled to avoid Japanese capture in December 1941, after being known as the USS Rochester and partially rebuilt, in the interwar.

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