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    The Miantonomoh class consisted of four monitors built for the Union Navy during the U.S. Civil War, but only one ship was completed early enough to participate...
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  • The first USS Miantonomoh was the lead ship of her class of four ironclad monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed...
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    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...
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    Fuller, Howard J. (December 2005). ""A portentous spectacle": The Monitor U.S.S. Miantonomoh Visits England" (PDF). International Journal of Naval History...
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    versions of the Miantonomoh-class monitors with greater speed and "adapted to coast service", meaning more seaworthy. The Kalamazoo-class ships were 345 feet...
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  • USS Agamenticus (category Miantonomoh-class monitors)
    USS Agamenticus was one of four Miantonomoh-class monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Commissioned as the war was...
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    Milwaukee class Milwaukee, sunk by mine, 28 March 1865, no fatalities Winnebago Chickasaw Kickapoo Dictator Onondaga Puritan Miantonomoh class Miantonomoh Monadnock...
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    gunboat) 1863 — Shawmut - (steam gunboat) 1863 — Agamenticus - (Miantonomoh-class monitor) 1864 — New Hampshire - (74-gun ship of the line) 1864 — Contoocook...
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    USS Monadnock (1863) (category Miantonomoh-class monitors)
    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...
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    The second USS Miantonomoh, an iron‑hulled, twin‑screw, double‑turreted monitor of the Amphitrite class; on June 23, 1874 by order of President Ulysses...
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    USS Tonawanda (1864) (category Miantonomoh-class monitors)
    USS Tonawanda was one of four Miantonomoh-class monitors built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. Commissioned in 1865...
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  • USS Terror (1863), a Miantonomoh-class monitor originally commissioned as Agamenticus, 5 May 1864; broken up 1874 USS Terror (BM-4), an Amphitrite-class monitor; commissioned...
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    it was proposed by a commodore that the monitors in service with the U.S. Navy, including Puritan, Miantonomoh, Terror and Amphitrite, be used as forts...
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  • is an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified...
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    mount it on top of the fore turret. A copy of that used by the Miantonomoh-class monitors was installed between the funnel and the foremast during August...
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    was an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified...
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    from assassination. His voyage was made in the monitor Miantonomoh, which was the first vessel of this class to cross the Atlantic. They were accompanied...
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    as possible, like the low-freeboard (though mastless) American monitor USS Miantonomoh; which had crossed the Atlantic under escort in June 1866, and...
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  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (2 September 2015). "Saugus I (Monitor)". history.navy.mil. Naval History and Heritage Command. Archived from...
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    Amphitrite-class monitor Miantonomoh. The 10"/30 caliber gun Mark 2 was used as main armament on the remaining Amphitrite-class monitors, the monitor Monterey...
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  • Company. 6 May  United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Tonawanda Miantonomoh-class monitor For United States Navy. 7 May  United Kingdom Messrs. John Quiggan...
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    was an Uragan-class monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the mid-1860s. The design was based on the American Passaic-class monitor, but was modified...
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    USS Michigan (BB-27) (category South Carolina-class battleships)
    September 1916, Michigan conducted gunnery practice with the old monitor Miantonomoh as a target, including night shooting drills on the 18th. On 21 September...
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    USS Ashuelot (category Mohongo-class gunboats)
    gunboat was chosen to join Augusta in escorting the double-ended monitor Miantonomoh to Europe. On the 11th, Ashuelot got underway to test her machinery...
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    War, which started in 1898. The "rebuilding" of USS Puritan and four Miantonomohs were under the direction of Sec. Robeson. Each ship was redesigned, scrapped...
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    23 August and Arminius returned to Kiel. On 3 October, the USS Miantonomoh, a monitor of the US Navy arrived in Kiel while on a promotional tour of European...
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    Shamrock, Mackinaw, Peoria, Tullahoma, Maumee, Nyack, Wampanoag, and Miantonomoh. Because of the Navy Yard's role in creating ships for Union blockades...
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    duty afloat, serving briefly in Ranger before being ordered to the monitor Miantonomoh. After torpedo instruction, the young officer — by then a lieutenant...
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    Lenthall himself designed the ironclad monitors of the successful Miantonomoh class. Early in the Civil War, Lenthall also designed the revolutionary...
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  • "repairing" the old ones. Roach received contracts for two of these ships—USS Miantonomoh (BM-5) and USS Puritan (BM-1), but when the Hayes administration came...
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