United States cruiser Olympia
Twin screw, length, 340 feet; breadth, 58 feet; draft, 21 feet 6 inches; displacement, 5,870 tons;
speed 20 knots. Main battery, four 8-inch guns and ten 5-inch rapid-fire guns. Secondary battery,
fourteen 6-pounder, and six 1-pounder rapid-fire guns, and four gatlings. Protected steel deck,
from 2 to 4 3/4. Cost, $1,769,000.
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