CINCINNATI

Last week, I wrote about the original US Navy ship named after the City of Cincinnati.  It was an iron-clad river boat used by the Union Army during the American Civil War.  

The second ship to carry the name was a cruiser launched in 1892 and commissioned in 1894.  It was the first of the Cincinnati-Class of ships having both engines and sails.  Her first duty was in the Caribbean during the Cuban Revolution.  She was a buffer between that country and Puerto Rico and the US mainland.   

In 1898, the Spanish-American War began and she served again in the Caribbean mostly scouting and capturing Spanish ships in that area.  She helped capture the Spanish Flagship which helped end the war the same year.

In the early 1900s, she served in the Asiatic fleet and when World War I began continued in that area.  After the War, in 1918, she returned to US waters; patrolling the south and east coasts.  She was decommissioned in 1919 and scrapped in 1921.