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Later Classes of Monitors:
USS Arkansas
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USS Arkansas
From the Collections of The Mariners' Museum
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A single-turreted monitor built at Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock, Co., Newport News, Virginia and
launched November 10, 1900. Her first assignment was to the
Naval Academy as an instruction and cruise ship. Reassigned
to the North Atlantic Fleet, the Arkansas cruised of
the east coast, the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies. She
continued to make summer practice cruises for the Naval Academy.
In 1906 she was reassigned the Naval Academy for instruction.
Renamed the Ozark on March 2,
1909, she was assigned to the District of Columbia Naval Militia
June 1910 to March 1913. In July 1913 she was refitted as a
submarine tender at the Norfolk Navy Yard. After special duty
in Mexico, the Ozark participated in Atlantic Fleet maneuvers
in 1915 and operated out of the Chesapeake Bay in 1916.
The Ozark was ordered to SubDiv6,
Atlantic Fleet on April 6, 1971 and cruised to Tampico, Mexico
to protect American and Allied interest. December 1918 she was
sent to cruise off Key West, Central America, and the Panama
Canal Zone. The Ozark was decommissioned on August 20,
1919 at Philadelphia and sold January 26, 1922.
Displacement: 3,225 tons
Length: 255 feet
Beam: 50 feet
Draft: 12 feet 6 inches
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