Opening Kiel Canal, Kiel, Germany, June 1895
Building ordered on 7 September 1888, order awarded on 28 August 1890, laid down by William Cramp&Sons, Philadelphia, USA with yard number 268 on 30 September 1890, launched on 2 December 1891, commissioned on 1 August 1893, renamed Saratoga on 16 February 1911,renamed Rochester on 1 December 1917, decommissioned on 29 April 1933 and finally scuttled on 24 December 1941. Preceded by the USS Maine and succeeded by USS Brooklyn.
