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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Terror |
| Ordered | 23 June 1874 |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 195 |
| Laid down | 1874 |
| Launched | 24 March 1883 |
| Commissioned | 15 April 1896 |
| Decommissioned | 8 May 1906 |
| Stricken | 31 December 1915 |
| Fate | Presumed scrapped, 1930s |
| 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 6 in (16.92 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 150 officers and enlisted |
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USS Terror (Monitor No. 4)—the totally rebuilt version of the earlier monitor Agamenticus, which had shared the Terror's name—was 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 laid down (scrapped and rebuilt) at Philadelphia contracted by William Cramp & Sons. Her construction progressed over the next three years until suspended in 1877. Work was resumed six years later, and the monitor was launched on 24 March 1883.
Delivered to the Navy in 1887, the still-unfinished warship was taken to the New York Navy Yard for completion. Over the next seven years, she fitted out at a leisurely pace. Terror was finally commissioned at New York City on 15 April 1896.