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.
Monadnock crossing the Pacific Ocean during the Spanish–American War
Monadnock, starboard side, in Chinese waters ca. 1901 (National Archives and Records Administration)
USS Monadnock (1863)
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USS Monadnock was one of four Miantonomoh-class monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Commissioned in late 1864, she participated in the First and Second Battles of
USS Monadnock (BM-3)
…June 23, 1874, in response to the Virginius Incident the previous year, President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson ordered the old Monadnock and four other large monitors "reconstructed"—that is, broken up and replaced by a newly-built ship of the same name incorporating some of the old…
A lithograph of USS Monadnock
Illustration of Monadnock's vibrating-lever engine – front view
Monadnock as she appeared in Callao, Peru, showing all the modifications made for the voyage