Nashville Tennessee State Museum

I’ll be talking to staff of Nashville’s Tennessee State Museum, and others, about USS Tennessee’s short and fascinating service life. Commissioned in 1906 as the first of a new class of armored cruisers, she was destroyed by high seas off Santo Domingo in the summer of 1916 under her new name, USS Memphis, just two years after her perfect execution of the US Navy’s little known first mission of World War I. Memphis’ wreck lies off the Dominican Republic’s capital still.