The first USS Missoula was originally named Montana (Armored Cruiser No. 13; ACR-13) and was a Tennessee-class armored cruiser of the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1908 and served with the Atlantic Ocean fleet before and during World War I. In 1920, she was renamed Missoula and reclassified CA-13 so that her former name could be used for a South Dakota-class battleship. Her name was struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register in 1930 and she was scrapped in 1935.