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USS Puritan (BM-1)
The second USS ''Puritan'' was a ''Puritan''-class monitor in the United States Navy, constructed in 1882. She was the only ship in her class. Construction On 23 June 1874 President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Navy George Robeson, in response to the Virginius Incident, ordered the of the American Civil War laid down (scrapped, redesigned, and rebuilt). Secretary Robeson's revised design of the "repaired" ''Puritan'' called for two turrets, and called for a superstructure, tall stack, and military mast that came to be identified with monitors built between 1889 and 1903. Because of the level of disrepair of the original ''Puritan'', a new ''Puritan'' was built by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works of Chester, Pennsylvania and completed by the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Officially, the Navy records list this action as a repair and redesignation of the original ''Puritan'', not the building of a new vessel, even though very few building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Puritan (BM-1)
The second USS ''Puritan'' was a ''Puritan''-class monitor in the United States Navy, constructed in 1882. She was the only ship in her class. Construction On 23 June 1874 President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Navy George Robeson, in response to the Virginius Incident, ordered the of the American Civil War laid down (scrapped, redesigned, and rebuilt). Secretary Robeson's revised design of the "repaired" ''Puritan'' called for two turrets, and called for a superstructure, tall stack, and military mast that came to be identified with monitors built between 1889 and 1903. Because of the level of disrepair of the original ''Puritan'', a new ''Puritan'' was built by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works of Chester, Pennsylvania and completed by the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. Officially, the Navy records list this action as a repair and redesignation of the original ''Puritan'', not the building of a new vessel, even though very few building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uss Puritan
USS ''Puritan'' may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: * was a single-turret monitor that was never commissioned. She remained in the docks until 1874 when she was broken up and her name transferred to a new vessel. * was an ''Puritan''-class monitor. After a long fitting out period, she was commissioned on 10 December 1896 and served in the Spanish–American War and as a militia vessel thereafter. She was sold for scrap 26 January 1922. * , (1918), was a transport, commissioned 20 November 1918 and used to ferry US troops home following World War I. She was decommissioned at New York 30 September 1919, and sold. In 1933, she was renamed ''George M. Cox''. Sunk near the Rock of Ages Light off Isle Royale in 1933. * was an auxiliary schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a United States Service academies, federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of the Navy. The Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five United States service academies, U.S. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River (Maryland), Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Anne Arundel County, east of Washington, D.C., and southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus, known colloquially as the Yard, is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that had served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Fajardo
The Battle of Fajardo was an engagement between the armed forces of the United States and Spain that occurred on the night of August 8–9, 1898 near the end of the Puerto Rican Campaign during the Spanish–American War. Background Proceeding under orders from Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, the monitors , , the armed tug , and the collier proceeded from Port Nipe to Cape San Juan, on the northeastern tip of Puerto Rico, arriving late afternoon on August, 1. The ships anchored behind a series of keys: Icacos, Isla de Lobos and Isla Palominos, out of sight from the mainland. Cape San Juan (Fajardo) was the designated landing site for the US Army forces under Major General Nelson A. Miles. However, sometime between July 21–24, 1898, Miles had unilaterally changed the invasion site from Fajardo to Guanica on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico. Expecting a rendez-vous with Miles' troops, but finding no transports save for ''Arcadia'' and ''Mississippi'' that "had been ordere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Isla de Mona, Mona, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques. It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its Capital city, capital and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, most populous city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Spanish language, Spanish and English language, English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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