Commissioned: August 18, 1906
Decommissioned: March 3, 1922
Displacement: 9,700 tons
Speed: 22 knots
Crew: 670
- Assigned to the Pacific Fleet in 1907 and served as a training, receiving, and submarine support ship until 1917.
- The USS St. Louis was transferred to the Atlantic upon the United States' entry into WWI. There she served as a transport vessel and escorted convoys of supply ships from the United States to Europe.
- Following the end of WWI and the signing of the Armistice, thousands of U.S. troops were brought home on the St. Louis.
- The ship was redesignated CA-18 when all armored and protected cruisers were reclassified by the U.S. Navy.
- In her last mission under active duty, the USS St. Louis was sent to the Mediterranean carrying U.S. mediators during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
- The bell of the USS St. Louis has been on display here at Soldiers Memorial since the mid 1940s, the ship's wheel was previously displayed at the Old Courthouse here in St. Louis and was donated to SM in 1969.
References:
"USS St. Louis." Department of the Navy - Navy Historical Center. 1999. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/c20.htm. Accessed June 2012.
