U.S.S. Puritan (1882)

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U.S.S. Puritan (1882)
Hull Number: BM-1
Builder: John Roach
New York NYd[1]
Ordered: 23 June, 1874[2]
Laid down: 1875[3]
Launched: 6 December, 1882[4]
Commissioned: 10 December, 1896[5]
Decommissioned: 23 April, 1910[6]
Stricken: 27 February, 1918[7]
Sold: 26 January, 1922[8]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Puritan was a monitor completed for the United States Navy in 1896.

Construction

Service

Armament

Guns

As Built[9]

  • four 12-inch/35 caliber
  • six 4-inch/40 caliber
  • six 6-pounders

Torpedoes

  • nil

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 115.
  3. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 17.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  6. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  7. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  8. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 422.
  9. Friedman. U.S. Battleships. p. 451.
  10. Register of Officers, 1898. p. 6.
  11. List and Station, July 1898. p. 5.
  12. List and Station, July 1898. p. 5.
  13. Register of Officers, 1903. p. 12.

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.


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