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M-1 USS PURITAN

CLASS - PURITAN As Built. Displacement 6,060 Tons, Dimensions, 296 x 60 x 18 feet/90.3 x 18.33 x 5.49 meters, Armament 2 dual 12/35, 6 single 4/40, 6 six-pound, Armor, 6-14" Belt, 14" barbettes, 8" Turrets, 10 " Conning Tower. Machinery, HC engines, 8 boilers, 2 shafts, 3,700 hp, Speed, 12 Knots, Crew 200 (270 wartime).

Operational and Building Data: Built by John Roach & Son, Chester, PA. Laid down 1875, suspended 1876, redesigned and construction resumed 1882, launched 6 December 1882, transferred to New York Navy Yard for completion, commissioned 10 December 1896. Operated around Cuba during the Spanish-American War, in blockade and bombardment duties. Served as a training ship at the Naval Academy 1899-1902. Decommissioned to reserve 16 April 1903; recommissioned 3 June 1903 as a receiving ship at Philadelphia. Loaned to the Washington DC Naval Militia from 1904 to 14 September 1909. Decommissioned to reserve 23 April 1910. Reclassified IX-6 on July 21, 1921 and used as Radio Controlled Target Ship.

Fate: Served as a target ship, designated Target B 1910-1917. Stricken for disposal 27 February 1918; sold for scrapping 22 January 1922.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
95k	The monitor Puritan (BM-1) as originally designed, from drawings in the 1887 Navy Department *Annual Report* to Congress. Note her similarity to Civil War *Monitors*, except for cabin structures built atop her two turrets, The forward structure carries her chart room, with her pilot house atop it. The deck view shows internal details of these structures and also the massive armored ventilator abaft her funnel. her smoke pipe was also to have been armored. The rectangular structures in her main deck were all companionways. At this stage her main battery had been fixed to four 10-inch breech-loading rifles. The objects at the ends of her flying bridges are running lights. The fighting top carried a 37mm revolver cannon.	Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
275k	A line drawing of the monitor Puritan (BM-1) as completed.	Photo courtesy of Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, collection of Robb Jensen.
164k	Line engraving of the planned Puritan (BM-1) refit that was actually constructed.	Photo from "Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia & Register", 1891 courtesy of Robert Hurst.
939k	*The New Honitor Puritan* (BM-1)** Largest Ship in the Navy Is Soon to Be Commissioned	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Evening Times. (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 11 November 1896, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
37k	Puritan (BM-1) under construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard. A PDF on her commissioning can be seen here.	Photo by Edward H. Hart, # det 4a14670 by The Detroit Publishing Company, now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) as LC-D4-20893. PDF courtesy of New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 11 December 1896, Image 10, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
3.96k	THE GIANT OF THE SEAS The New Monitor Puritan (BM-1), a Perfect Fighting Machine THE MOST POWERFUL COAST DEFENSE WARSHIP THE WORLD OVER	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo courtesy of The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 27 December 1896, Image 16, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
1.11k	A GREAT WORK ENDED UNCLE SAM'S BIG BROOKLYN DRYDOCK READY FOR BUSINESS THE PURITAN (BM-1) IN THE DRYDOCK	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 21 March 1897, Image 30, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
460k	THE MONITORS OF TODAY. ESSENTIALLY AN AMERICAN TYPE OF WAR-VESSEL.	Photo courtesy of New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 29 August 1897, Image 30, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
227k	SIGHTING THE RAPID-FIRE GUNS ON BOARD THE PURITAN* (BM-1).* A PDF on her history can be seen here.	Photo courtesy of New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 31 October 1897, Image 30, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
532k	The monitor Puritan (BM-1) amidst a fleet of ships for company, circa 1898.	Photo by B.L. Singley, courtesy of Robert Hurst.
696k	THE NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON, NOW BLOCKADING CUBAN PORTS.	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 23 February 1898, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 01/08/12.
3.7k	KEEL OF THE MAINE WAS BROKEN IN HALF DIVERS HAVE POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT A MINE DESTROYED THE SHIP The Double Turreted Monitor Puritan (BM-1), One of the Most Powerful Warships Afloat.	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call.(San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 02 March 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
4.46k	*MONITOR PURITAN* (BM-1), MOST DESTRUCTIVE OF WAR VESSELS The monitor Puritan*, which takes the place of the Terror* (M-4) in the strategic position in Hampton roads, is a much more terrible and destructive vessel of war than the *Terror, in spite of the Puritan's* peace-suggesting name. The *Terror* does not displace 4000 tons of water. The *Puritan* displaces 6000. This tonnage is that of a second-class battleship, but the *Puritan* is not precisely a battleship in the sense in which that term is generally used. She is purely a coast defense vessel, and, owing to her extremely low freeboard, she does not care to go far to sea, although she can sail if she has to. The *Puritan, like her sister ships is a floating fort. She has two turrets, instead of one. end can hurl a most destructive charge at an enemy. She carries 12-inch guns in her turret, instead of the 10-inch guns of the Terror. There is no ship of her kind on water that can compare with the Puritan* for fighting ability or for tonnage.	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo courtesy of The Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 04 March 1898, Image 2, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
54k	Enrique Miller photo of the Puritan (BM-1) in port in 1898.	Photo courtesy of greatwhitefleet.info, by William Stewart.
200k	On 27 April 1898 the U.S. Navy monitor Puritan (BM-1), (in the foreground) and the armored cruisers New York (CA-2) and Cincinnati (C-7) bombarded the Spanish fortifications on Matanzas Bay, Cuba.	Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Text courtesy of loc.gov. (Library of Congress).
1.2m	The monitor Puritan (BM-1) participating in the shelling of Mantanzas, Cuba, on 27 April 1898.	Photo taken from "Our Country in War" by Murat Halstead, 1898, courtesy of Robert Hurst.
136k	On 27 April 1898 the U.S. Navy monitor Puritan (BM-1), (in the foreground) and the armored cruiser Cincinnati (C-7) return after bombarding the Spanish fortifications on Matanzas Bay, Cuba.	Photo courtesy of A History of the War of 1898, published by Collier in 1898, and submitted by Daniel Wilmes.
3.3m	THE SQUADRON THAT SILENCED THE BATTERIES AT MATANZAS.	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.] 1895-1913, 28 April 1898, Image 3, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
2.81k	OUR MONITOR FLEET. Miantonomah (BM-5), Terror (M-4), Puritan (BM-1) .	Image and text provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo courtesy of The Appeal.(Saint Paul, Minn.;) 1889-19??, 14 May 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
3.43k	SURROUNDING SAN JUAN. A View of the Northeastern Part of Porto Rico, Showing the Towns of Fajardo In the Center, Thirty Miles From San Juan, and Ceiba on the Left, Which Have Just Surrendered to the Americans, With Cape San Juan and Its Lighthouse, Now Operated by a detail of American Marines, on the Right and in the distance the Peak of El Yungue, 3714 Feet High, From Which All the Spanish Positions in Eastern Porto Rico Can Be Seen. In the Middle Foreground is the Gunboat *Marietta, With the Monitors Puritan* (BM-1) and Amphitrite (BM-2) on the Right, and the Montgomery (C-9), With the Transports Ready to Discharge Their Troops, on the Left	Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo courtesy of The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 07 August 1898, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
88k	Turret and guns of the Puritan (BM-1), 1898.	Photo courtesy of A History of the War of 1898, published by Collier in 1898, and submitted by Daniel Wilmes.
57k	Puritan (BM-1) in port, broadside view, location unknown. Photographed circa 1896-99.	USNHC # NH 60696.
182k	Puritan (BM-1) passing under Brooklyn Bridge sometime between 1898 and 1901.	Library of Congress photo # LC-D4-20892, courtesy of Mike Green.
84k	Puritan (BM-1) in color.	Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
210k	Stereoscopic color print of the monitor Puritan (BM-1).	Photo courtesy of SK/3 Tommy Trampp.
2.16k	THE MONITOR PURITAN (BM-1) DISTRICT NAVAL RESERVES NEW SHIP A Detachment of Amateur Sailors Left Washington Today to Bring the Vessel Here From League Island Navy Yard.	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 03 September 1904, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
58k	The monitors (front to back, left side) Puritan (BM-1), Nevada (M-8), & Florida (M-9) with the cruisers (front to back, right side) Denver (C-14), Cleveland (C-19), & Tacoma (C-18), steam in line abreast, circa probably mid-late 1900's.	USNI / USN photo.
2.98k	SAILED DOWN THE POTOMAC RIVER TODAY TO AID IN THE DEFENSE OF WASHINGTON THE MONITOR PURITAN (BM-1) Ship of the District Naval Reserves Which Will Take Part in the Big War Game	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 09 June 1905, Evening, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
1.94k	*DISTRICT SAILORS START CRUISE FAR TO SEA ON MONITOR PURITAN* (BM-1) The Old Monitor Puritan** on Which the District Naval Reserve This Morning Sailed Down the Potomac	Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939,15 September 1906, Last Edition, Image 3, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
648k	Crew members of the Puritan (BM-1) pose for a group photo in 1907.	Photograph courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
70k	Puritan (BM-1) in harbor, portside view, date and location unknown.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Andrew Toppan / Hazegray & Underway.
83k	Starboard broadside view of the Puritan (BM-1) in port, date & location unknown.	USNI / USN photo
60k	A stereo view minus one of the Puritan (BM-1).	Photo courtesy of Jim Geldert.
770k	Wrecking A Ship To Test A New Explosive Scenes at the recent test of. the new Isham explosive by the navy department. The above photograph shows a crack in the turret of the United States monitor Puritan (BM-1), made by the new explosive. Below is a photograph taken as the explosion on board the monitor took place. The first test consisted of placing 200 pounds of the new explosive, which consists of nitroglycerine gun cotton and marble dust in gelatine, against the starboard side of the after turret. It was fired by means of an electrical apparatus from the berth deck forward, on the *Puritan*. The second test discharged 200 pounds of the explosive at the belt line of the armor plate. This discharge caused the armor plate to give way and the monitor began to fill. The sinking ship was manned by a crew and rushed to the Norfolk navy yard for repairs. Ordnance experts say the tests were a success, but whether the United States will adopt it for the navy is not known.	Image and text provided by University of North Texas; Denton, TX. Photo courtesy of El Paso Herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 03 December 1910, Image 22, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
1.0m	Favorite pastime among sailors on the Puritan (BM-1) before she meets her maker here.	Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. PDF courtesy of Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 05 August 1922, Night Extra, Image 3 via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Photo courtesy of Tommy Trampp.
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.

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