3-078-244 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Navy: steel cruiser Chicago, flag-ship of Admiral J. G. Walker in the Mediterranean, 1890. 'The squadron of evolution sent by the United States Government to the Mediterranean, under command of Rear-Admiral John G. Walker, arrived on May 3 at Algiers. The Admiral's flag-skip is the frigate-built steel cruiser U.S.S. Chicago, which is represented in our Illustration. This ship, constructed of mild steel at a cost of £178,000, and launched in 1885, is 334 ft. long, 48 ft. broad, and draws 19 ft., having a displacement of 4500 tons. She has two screw-propellers, with engines of 5500-horse power, indicated; the machinery is protected by a partial steel deck. Her speed is fifteen knots an hour, and she carries 940 tons of coal. The armament consists of four 8-in. breech-loading guns, on the spar-deck; eight 6-in. breech-loading guns, in broadside, on the gun-deck; and two 5-in. breech-loading guns aft; with six machine-guns. Two or three other ships of the same type are being constructed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.