USS Terror (BM-4)
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| Name: | USS Terror |
| Ordered: | 23 June 1874 |
| Builder: | William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia |
| Laid down: | 1874 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1883 |
| Commissioned: | 15 April 1896 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 May 1906 |
| Struck: | 31 December 1915 |
| Fate: | Presumed scrapped, 1930s |
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| Type: | Amphitrite class monitor |
| Displacement: | 3,990 long tons (4,054 t) |
| Length: | 263 ft 1 in (80.19 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft 6 in (16.92 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 150 officers and enlisted |
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USS Terror (Monitor No. 4)—the totally rebuilt version of the earlier monitor Agamenticus, which had shared the Terror's name—was an iron-hulled, twin-screw, double-turreted monitor of the Amphitrite class; on June 23, 1874 by order of President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson in response to the Virginius Incident laid down (scrapped and rebuilt) at Philadelphia contracted by William Cramp and Sons. Her construction progressed over the next three years until suspended in 1877. Work was resumed six years later, and the monitor was launched on 24 March 1883.
Delivered to the Navy in 1887, the still-unfinished warship was taken to the New York Navy Yard for completion. Over the next seven years, she fitted out at a snail's pace. Terror was finally commissioned at New York City on 15 April 1896, with Captain Purnell Frederick Harrington in command.
Assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron, Terror operated off the east coast of the United States, from Tompkinsville, New York, to Hampton Roads and Fort Monroe, Virginia; and from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Charleston, South Carolina, through the winter of 1897 and 1898. The mysterious explosion which wrecked the armored cruiser Maine at Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898 materially increased tensions between the United States and Spain. Terror sped south from Tompkinsville to join the fleet concentrating in southern waters and arrived at Key West on 2 April 1898.
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