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The Monroe Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 376 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Monroe. The district developed between about 1874 and 1940 and includes notable examples of ...
This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy has 13 Ticonderoga -class cruisers in active service, as of 23 September 2023, with the last tentatively scheduled for decommissioning in 2027. With the cancellation of the CG (X) program in ...
January 6, 1988. Monroe Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 25 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Monroe. The district developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and includes notable examples of ...
Heavy cruisers. Veinticinco de Mayo class. Veinticinco de Mayo (1929) - Scrapped 1960. Almirante Brown (1929) - Scrapped 1962. Light cruisers. La Argentina (1937) - Retired 1972. Brooklyn class. Nueve de Julio (1936, ex-USS Boise) - Assigned 1951, retired 1977. General Belgrano (1938, ex-USS Phoenix) - Assigned 1951, sunk 1982 in the Falklands War.
Deck: 3 in (76 mm) Turrets: 9 in (229 mm) Conning tower: 9 in. USS North Carolina (ACR-12/CA-12) was a Tennessee -class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. The ship was built by Newport News Shipbuilding; she was laid down in March 1905, launched in October 1906, and was commissioned in May 1908. The final class of armored cruisers to be ...
2404284 [ 3] Website. www .monroenc .org. Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Union County, North Carolina, United States. [ 5] The population increased from 32,797 in 2010 to 34,551 in 2020. [ 6] It is within the rapidly growing Charlotte metropolitan area. Monroe has a council-manager form of government.
The Columbia-class cruisers were two protected cruisers constructed in 1890 and 1891 and used by the United States Navy. [3] They were lightly gunned ships with only moderate armor that were built for the speed needed to overtake and destroy the fast ocean liners of the day as commerce raiders. However, the light armament and armor left these ...
Conning tower 12 in (30.5 cm) Deck 2–3 in (5.1–7.6 cm) Notes. 1,050 tons of coal (normal) The Infanta Maria Teresa class of three armored cruisers were built for the Spanish Navy between 1889 and 1893. All three were sunk in action against the United States Navy during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in 1898.