Address Restricted, Fire Island, New York. County/parish: Suffolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 17, 1998. NRIS 98000071.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser.
California was launched on 28 April 1904 by Union Iron Works at San Francisco, California, sponsored by Miss Florence Pardee, daughter of California Governor George C. Pardee, and commissioned on 1 August 1907. It would later be the only major US warship lost during World War 1, sunk by a German mine after reaching Long Island, New York while en route from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to New York.
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