&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Amphitrite_BM-2_NH58949.jpg) The USS Amphitrite moored at the Boston Navy Yard.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Amphitrite |
| Ordered | 23 June 1874 |
| Cost | $1,487,277 (hull and machinery)[1] |
| Laid down | 1874 |
| Launched | 7 June 1883 |
| Commissioned | 23 April 1895 |
| Decommissioned | 30 November 1901 |
| Recommissioned | 1 December 1902 |
| Decommissioned | 3 August 1907 |
| Recommissioned | 14 June 1910 |
| Decommissioned | 31 May 1919 |
| Stricken | 24 July 1919 |
| Fate | scrapped, 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Amphitrite class monitor |
| Displacement | 3,990 tons |
| Length | 262 ft 9 in (80.09 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft 1 in (16.79 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Speed | 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement | 171 |
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The second USS Amphitrite—the lead ship in her class of iron-hulled, twin-screw monitors—was laid down (dismantled and reconstructed), on June 23, 1874, by order of President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson at Wilmington, Delaware, by the Harlan and Hollingsworth yard; launched on 7 June 1883; sponsored by Miss Nellie Benson, the daughter of a Harlan and Hollingsworth official; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 23 April 1895, Captain William C. Wise in command.[2]
Rapid changes in naval technology and doctrine during the two decades she was under construction had repeatedly delayed her progress, and she was redesigned twice while still under construction.
- ^ "Table 21 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.
- ^ "USS Amphitrite II". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command.