USS Monadnock (BM-3)
Monadnock crossing the Pacific Ocean during the Spanish-American War
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| Name: | USS Monadnock |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1874 |
| Laid down: | 1874 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1883 |
| Commissioned: | 20 February 1896 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 March 1919 |
| Struck: | 2 February 1923 |
| Fate: | Sold, 24 August 1923 |
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| 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 President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson ordered the Monadnock laid down (scrapped and reconstructed) contracted by Phineas Burgess at the Continental Iron Works, Vallejo, California; 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.
After fitting out Monadnock served as a unit of the Pacific Squadron along the west coast. During the next two years exercises and training cruises sent her along the Pacific coast from Puget Sound to the Baja California peninsula. After the outbreak of war with Spain, she was ordered to join George Dewey's fleet in the Philippines. She departed San Francisco, California on 23 June 1898, touched at Hawaii early in July, and reached Manila Bay on 16 August.
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