USS Maryland ( ACR - 8 ) The second USS " Maryland " ( ACR - 8 ) , also referred to as " Armored Cruiser 8 " , and later renamed Frederick , was a United States Navy armored cruiser . She was laid down on 7 October 1901 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company , Newport News , Virginia , launched on 12 September 1903 , sponsored by Miss Jennie Scott Waters ; and commissioned on 18 April 1905 , Captain R . R . Ingersoll in command . Service history . Pre - World War I . In October 1905 , following shakedown , " Maryland " joined the Atlantic Fleet for operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean , where she took part in the 1906 winter maneuvers off Cuba . The next summer , she conducted a training cruise for Massachusetts Naval Militia men , and then readied for transfer to the $ 3 . Departing Newport on 8 September 1906 , she sailed – via San Francisco and Hawaii — for the Asiatic Station , where she remained until October 1907 . She then returned to San Francisco and for the next decade she cruised throughout the Pacific , participating in survey missions to Alaska ( 1912 and 1913 ) ; carrying United States Secretary of State Knox to Tokyo for the funeral of Emperor Meiji Tenno ( September 1912 ) ; steaming off the Central American coast to aid , if necessary , Americans endangered by political turmoil in Mexico and Nicaragua ( 1913 , 1914 , and 1916 ) ; and making numerous training cruises to Hawaii and the South - Central Pacific . World War I . When the United States Congress declared war on Imperial Germany on 6 April 1917 , the armored cruiser , renamed Frederick - - - in order to free up her original name for use with the Colorado - class battleship - - - on 9 November 1916 , was " en route " from Puget Sound to San Francisco . Taking on men and supplies at the latter port , she got underway for the Atlantic . From May 1917 – January 1918 , she patrolled the southeastern Atlantic off the coast of South America . On 1 February , she was assigned to escort duty in the North Atlantic , and until the signing of the Armistice , she convoyed troopships east of the 37th meridian . By 20 November , she was attached to the Cruiser and Destroyer Force , and before mid - 1919 had completed six round trips returning troops from France . Detached from that duty , she entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was briefly placed in reduced commission . Inter - war period . " Frederick " crossed the Atlantic again , carrying the US Olympic Team to Antwerp , Belgium , as she conducted a naval reservist training cruise in July 1920 . At the end of that year , she returned to the Pacific Fleet . Serving as flagship of the Train , Pacific Fleet , for the next year , she conducted only one lengthy cruise , to South America in March 1921 . Operations off the west coast took up the remainder of her active duty career , and on 14 February 1922 she decommissioned and entered the Reserve Fleet at Mare Island . She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 November 1929 and sold on 11 February 1930 . In 1921 , " Frederick " was used for several scenes in Harold Lloyd ' s first full - length film , the comedy " A Sailor - Made Man " . " Camera " ( vol . 4 , no . 29 , p . 8 ) mentions a dinner party for the cast that was given by the officers of the ship .