Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.
Dispatched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to stand by the liner Carpathia during her return to New York and, with the USS Chester, to offer necessary assistance.
Actually, Salem stood by off the Nantucket Light Vessel and helped forward Carpathia's wireless messages as relayed by the Chester to land stations.
Data:
August 28, 1905
Laid down.
June 27, 1907
Launched.
April 25, 1908
Commissioned.
June, 1909
Joined the Scout Cruiser Division.
April 23, 1914
Assigned to Special Services Squadron for service off Vera Cruz, Mexico.
April 23, 1917
Decommissioned. At Boston Navy Yard, original Curtis turbines replaced with General Electric turbines.
March 12-27, 1918
Service in North Atlantic and Caribbean.
1919
Steamed to U. S. west coast (Mare Island, California).
August 16, 1921
Decommissioned at Mare Island.
November 13, 1929
Struck from Naval Vessel Register.
February 11, 1930
Sold for scrap to D. G. Seagraves, San Francisco, California.
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