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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Miantonomoh |
| Namesake | Miantonomoh (1600?-1643), a chief of the Narragansett people |
| Ordered | 23 June 1874 |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 1874 |
| Launched | 5 December 1876 |
| Commissioned | 6 October 1882 |
| Decommissioned | 13 March 1883 |
| Recommissioned | 27 October 1891 |
| Decommissioned | 20 November 1895 |
| Recommissioned | 10 March 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 8 March 1899 |
| Recommissioned | 9 April 1907 |
| Decommissioned | 21 December 1907 |
| Stricken | 31 December 1915 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 26 January 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Amphitrite class monitor |
| Displacement | 3,990 long tons (4,054 t) |
| Length | 263 ft 1 in (80.19 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft 4 in (16.87 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine, 2 screws |
| Speed | 10.6 knots (19.6 km/h; 12.2 mph) |
| Complement | 150 officers and enlisted |
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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 S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson in response to the Virginius Incident was laid down (scrapped and rebuilt) contracted by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works of Chester, Pennsylvania; launched 5 December 1876; and commissioned in an uncompleted condition on 6 October 1882, Commander Francis J. Higginson in command.