USS Monadnock (BM-3)
Monadnock crossing the Pacific Ocean during the Spanish–American War | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Monadnock |
| Ordered | 23 June 1874 |
| Builder |
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| Cost | $2,069,622 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down | 1874 |
| Launched | 19 September 1883 |
| Commissioned | 20 February 1896 |
| Decommissioned | 24 March 1919 |
| Stricken | 2 February 1923 |
| Fate | Sold, 24 August 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Amphitrite class monitor |
| Displacement | 3,990 long tons (4,054 t) |
| Length | 262 ft 3 in (79.93 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft 5 in (16.89 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 11.6 knots (21.5 km/h; 13.3 mph) |
| Complement | 156 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS Monadnock was an iron-hulled, twin-screw, double-turreted monitor of the Amphitrite class in the United States Navy which saw service in the Spanish–American War.
On June 23, 1874, in response to the Virginius Incident the previous year, President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson ordered the old Monadnock and four other large monitors "reconstructed"—that is, broken up and replaced by a newly-built ship of the same name incorporating some of the old ship's materiel. Reconstruction of the Monadnock was contracted to Phineas Burgess, who opened a facility in Vallejo, California for re-assembling components built at the Continental Iron Works in New York City; launched 19 September 1883; completed at Mare Island Navy Yard; and commissioned there 20 February 1896, Captain George W. Sumner in command, Lt. Cdr. Edward D. Taussig, executive officer.