USS Chicago (1885)
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The first USS Chicago was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, the largest of the original three authorized by Congress for the "New Navy" and one of the U.S. Navy's first four steel ships.
USS Chicago in 1891
Illustration of one of Chicago's two original beam-propeller engines. Chicago was a twin-screw ship; a similar engine drove the screw on the other side of the vessel.
Officers of USS Chicago, photographed on her deck c. 1903
Chicago as barracks ship USS Alton (IX-5) at Pearl Harbor, 1926
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power
USS Chicago (1885)
…York on 18 June 1893 to cruise in European and Mediterranean waters as flagship of the European station. During this period the ship was commanded by Alfred Thayer Mahan, already famous as a naval strategist. Chicago returned to New York on 20 March 1895, and was placed out of commission there on 1 May. Recommissioned…
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Mahan Hall at the United States Naval Academy is named for Mahan.