USS Detroit (C-10): Fought in the Spanish-American War

From Wikipedia.

Unprotected cruiser of the Montgomery-class.  Commissioned 20 July 1893.  decommissioned 1 August 1905.  Sold for scrap 1910.

269 feet long, 37-foot beam..  Mounted two 6-inch and eight 5-inch guns in main armament.

Protected American citizens in Rio de Janeiro in 1893 and engaged a rebel cruiser and then sent to the Asiatic Station.

Overhauled in New York in 1897 then went to Key West as tensions between the U.S. and Spain mounted over Cuba.

--Cooter