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	Continental Iron Works (Greenpoint, NY) ; Phineas Burgess (Vallejo, CA) ; Mare Island Navy Yard (Mare Island, CA);
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
Armament	4 × 10 in (254 mm)/caliber guns; 2 × 4 in (100 mm) guns; 2 × 6-pounder guns; 2 × 3-pounder guns; 2 × 1-pounder guns;

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.

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