#amphitrite class

USS Monadnock (BM-3) at sea between San Francisco, CA, and Manila, Philippine Islands, circa June 23 to August 16, 1898. She was one of only two U.S. Navy monitors ever to make the crossing. She was ordered to join George Dewey's Asiatic fleet in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. While she never turned to the continental US, she protected US interests during the Boxer rebellion and patrol the rivers of China. She served her twilight years as a submarine chaser before being scrapped in 1923.

Photographed from USS Nero (AC-17), her escort on the trans-Pacific voyage.

Note: the amount of water over top of the main deck. While a ship will stay afloat as the main interior body stays dry, that doesn't mean it makes a good sea going vessel. Monitors as design have shallower hulls to make them a smaller target to the enemy, the trade off is they are only really suited for rivers and coastal areas.

USS AMPHITRITE (BM-2) at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts.

Date: August 27, 1901

USS TERROR (BM-4) anchored near New York City.

She was "totally rebuilt from the earlier monitor USS 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 resumed six years later, and the monitor was launched on March 24, 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 April 15, 1896."

-info from Wikipedia: link

Photographed on April 23, 1897.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 67802