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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 Controled 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.
17k	A line drawing by A.D. Baker III of the monitor Puritan (BM-1) as completed.	Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
37k	Puritan (BM-1) under construction at Brooklyn Navy Yard.	Photo by Edward H. Hart, # det 4a14670 by The Detriot Publishing Company, now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) as LC-D4-20893.
54k	Enrique Miller photo of the Puritan (BM-1) in port 1n 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).
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. Photo added 03/20/08.
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. Photo added 03/20/08.
24k	Puritan (BM-1) going under the Brooklyn bridge, circa 1890-1901.	Photo by Edward H. Hart, # det 4a14669 by The Detriot Publishing Company, now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) as LC-D4-20892.
57k	Puritan (BM-1) in port, broadside view, location unknown. Photographed circa 1896-99.	USNHC # NH 60696.
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.
48k	Puritan (BM-1) at sea in an undated photo.	U.S. Navy photo courtesy of 'U.S. Warships of WW I' by Paul Silverstone. Courtesy of Mike Green.
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
29k	Statrboard broadside view of the Puritan (BM-1) in port, date & location unknown.	USN photo & text courtesy of "Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937", pg 38, by Lt. Richard H. Webber, USNR-R. (LOC) Library of Congress, Catalog Card No. 77-603596.
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 PURITAN M-1 History
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(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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Additional Resources
Hazegray & Underway Battleship Pages By Andrew Toppan.

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