Amphitrite Class Monitor (1876)

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search

The United States completed four Amphitrite Class Monitors after an exceedingly slow build, in the 1890s.

Overview of four vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Hull No. Builders Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Amphitrite BM-2 Harlan & Hollingsworth
Norfolk NYd
1874 7 June, 1883 23 April, 1895 Sold 3 January, 1920
Monadnock BM-3 Continental I.W.
Mare Island NYd
15 January, 1875 19 September, 1883 20 February, 1896 Sold 24 August, 1923
Terror BM-4 Cramp
New York NYd
1874 24 March, 1883 15 April, 1896 Sold 10 March, 1921
Miantonomoh BM-5 John Roach
New York NYd
1874 5 December, 1876 27 October, 1891 Sold 26 January, 1922

Design & Construction

Armament

Guns

As Built[1][2][3]

  • four 10-inch/30 caliber (Miantonomoh two 10-inch/30 caliber and 10-inch/35 caliber)
  • two 4-inch/40 caliber (Amphitrite and Monadnock only)
  • four 6-pounder
  • two 3-pounders

Torpedoes

  • nil

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 450.
  2. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 17.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 146.

Bibliography

  • Allen, Francis J. (1983). Roberts, John. ed. "The US Monitors Part 1". Warship Volume VII: pp. 55-59.
  • Allen, Francis J. (1983). Roberts, John. ed. "The US Monitors Part 2". Warship Volume VII: pp. 134-140.
  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-715-1. (on Amazon.com).
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.


Amphitrite Class Monitor
  Amphitrite Miantonomoh Monadnock Terror  
<– Canonicus Class Monitors (US) U.S.S. Puritan –>