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M-7 USS ARKANSAS

Arkansas Class Monitor: Displacement 3,225 tons. Dimensions: 225'x50' x12.5' according to blueprints from the BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR, NAVY DEPARTMENT, dated 1898, provided by Gorden Gregson.Armament 1 dual 12/40, 4 single 4/50, 3 6-pound. Armor, Harvey: 5-11 inch belt, 9-11 inch barbettes, 9-10 inch turrets, 7.5 inch CT. Machinery, VTE engines, 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 2,400 hp, Speed, 12.5 Knots, Crew 220.

Operational and Building Data: Built by Newport News SB&DD, VA. Laid down 14 November 1899, launched 10 November 1900, commissioned 28 October 1902. Briefly served as a training ship at the Naval Academy, then operated with the fleet while making summer training cruises; assigned to the Naval Academy as a training ship starting 1906. Renamed Ozark on 2 March 1909. Loaned to the Washington DC Naval Militia 26 June 1910 to 6 March 1913. Outfitted as a submarine tender 1913 and thereafter operated as a part-time submarine tender, while also cruising with the fleet.
Fate: Decommissioned for disposal 20 August 1919. Designation BM 7 assigned 17 July 1920. Sold for scrapping 26 January 1922.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
177k	"U.S. Monitors Arkansas (M-7), Connecticut (M-8), Florida (M-9) and Wyoming (M-10)". Pen and ink side elevation and plan view, by the Bureau of Construction and Repair. These monitors (numbers 7-10, respectively) were built under the 1898 ship construction program. *Connecticut* was renamed *Nevada* in January 1901, after launching but more than two years before completion.	U.S. Naval Historical Center photo # NH 61879.
21k	A line drawing by A.D. Baker III of the monitor Arkansas (M-7) as completed.	Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
82k	Launching of the Arkansas (M-7) at Newport News, VA., 10 November 1900.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Andrew Toppan / Hazegray & Underway.
71k	Holland (SS-01), at the US Naval Acadamy, Annapolis, MD., circa 1901-1902. The crew on deck are, L to R: Harry Wahab, chief gunner's mate; Kane; Richard O. Williams, chief electrician; Chief Gunner Owen Hill, commanding; Igoe; Michael Malone; Barnett Bowie, Simpson, chief machinist mate, and Rhinelander. The two vessels on the right are monitors. The inboard vessel has only one turret and is probably one of 3 monitors: Arkansas (M-7), Nevada(M-8) or Florida (M-9). The outboard 2 turreted monitor is also one of 3 probables: Amphitrite (BM-2) , Terror (M-4) or Miantonomah (BM-5).	US Navy photo courtesy of the US Naval Historical Center.
166k	The monitor Arkansas (M-7) fitting out at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., 1 July 1902. Her armament is completley installed and the ship is only four months away from commissioning. The ship in the background is the battleship Missouri (BB-11).	U.S. Navy photo & text courtesy of"Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 46, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596.
758k	Post card of the Arkansas (M-7).	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp. Photo added 07/17/09.
128k	Officers & Crew of the monitor Arkansas (M-7), circa 1907.	U.S. National Archives photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
84k	"Eager crowds viewing the submarines at the foot of 135TH street with the Rhode Island (BB-17) in mid stream." The submarine tender is either the Arkansas (M-7), Tonopah (M-8) or Florida (M-9).	Photo by H.H. Russell, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Text courtesy of N.Y. Times, 16 May 1915, Page 1.
66k	Arkansas (M-7) painted in wartime gray. She was renamed in March, 1909.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of 'U.S. Warships of WW1' by Paul Silverstone. Courtesy of Mike Green.
58k	Arkansas (M-7) as completed, portside view. Date and location unknown.	Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group 19-N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell.
138k	Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. Ships in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, circa spring 1919. Panoramic photograph taken by Keystone Photo Studios, 817 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. The following ships can be identified from among those present: Rowan (DD-64)); Preston (DD-19); Macdonough (DD-09); Patterson (DD-36); St. Louis (C-12); Ohio (BB-12); *SC-342; SC-344; Alabama* (BB-8); Kearsarge (BB-5); Illinois (BB-7); Ozark (M-7); Kentucky (BB-6); and Hancock (AP-3) .	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98604, from the collection of Eugene Bennett, donated by his daughter, Jene B. Hart, September 1988.
376k	A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991.	USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.

USS ARKANSAS M-7 History
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