Monitors: Amphitrite Class

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Amphitrite Class Monitor USS Monadnock pictured entering Mare Island Drydock,June 1898.

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A nice colorized view.......... Freeboard? We don't need no lousy freeboard!! DFO

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Lead Ship,Monitor USS Amphitrite pictured fitting out at Norfolk Navy Yard c1890.

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10 inch/31 calibre breech loading guns pictured being installed on Amphitrite Class Monitor USS Miantonomoh at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1891.

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Lead Ship, Monitor USS Amphitrite pictured c 1900.

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Amphitrite Class iron‑hulled, twin‑screw, double‑turreted Monitor USS Miantonomoh pictured at New York in 1892.

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Lead Ship, iron-hulled, twin-screw Monitor USS Amphitrite pictured at Norfolk Navy Yard c1901.

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Amphitrite Class Monitor USS Monadnock pictured off Honolulu in 1898.

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Amphitrite Class Monitor USS Monadnock pictured having one her aft turret 10 inch/31 calibre gun barrels installed at Mare Island Navy Yard on January 6th 1896.

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Launch day pictured for Lead Ship, Monitor USS Amphitrite at Harlan & Hollingsworth Shipyard at Wilmington, Delaware on June 7th 1883. She was laid down 1874, suspended 1876, resumed 1882, launched June 7th 1883, transferred to Norfolk Navy Yard for completion, commissioned on April 23rd 1895.