USS Monterey (BM-6)
 The USS Monterey at Mare Island Navy Yard. |
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 United States
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| Cost: | $1,871,394 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down: | 20 December 1889 |
| Launched: | 28 April 1891 |
| Commissioned: | 13 February 1893 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 August 1921 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,084 tons |
| Length: | 260 ft 11 in (79.53 m) |
| Beam: | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Speed: | 13.6 knots |
| Complement: | 210 |
| Armament: |
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The second USS Monterey (BM‑6) was the sole Monterey-class monitor. Laid down by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, 20 December 1889; launched 28 April 1891; sponsored by Miss Kate C. Gunn; and commissioned 13 February 1893, Captain Lewis Kempff in command.
Assigned to the Pacific Squadron for harbor defense, Monterey operated out of Mare Island Navy Yard, making numerous voyages to ports on the West Coast on maneuvers and target practice during her first 5 years of naval service. Each spring the monitor would make a voyage down the California coast or a trip to Washington for target practice. From April to August 1895, she made an extended voyage down the South American coast to Callao, Peru, via Acapulco, Mazatlán, and Panama.
With the outbreak of the Spanish–American War and Commodore George Dewey's great victory in Manila Bay 1 May 1898, Monterey was ordered to sail for the Philippines to provide the Asiatic Squadron with big gun support against possible attack by the recently formed Spanish 2nd Squadron, which included the battleship Pelayo and the large armored cruiser Emperador Carlos V.
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