Amphitrite-class monitor
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The Amphitrite-class monitors were a class of four U.S. Navy monitors ordered in the aftermath of the Virginius affair with Spain in 1873. The four ships of the class included Amphitrite, Monadnock, T
USS Monadnock, a monitor of the Amphitrite class, crossing the Pacific Ocean during the Spanish–American War.
USS Monadnock prior to her launch at the Burgess shipyard, Vallejo, California, 19 September 1883. Monadnock is the only known ship to have been built by Burgess.
Fitting the main guns to a turret of USS Miantonomoh at the New York Navy Yard, circa 1890
USS Amphitrite, lead ship of the Amphitrite class, at the Boston Navy Yard, 1890s
USS Monadnock (BM-3)
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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.
Amphitrite-class monitor
…class of four U.S. Navy monitors ordered in the aftermath of the Virginius affair with Spain in 1873. The four ships of the class included Amphitrite, Monadnock, Terror, and Miantonomoh. A fifth ship originally of the same design, Puritan, was later fitted with extra armor and designated as a unique class…
Monadnock, starboard side, in Chinese waters ca. 1901 (National Archives and Records Administration)