Америка Азамат Соғысы кезеңіндегі "Монднок" мониторы

Miantonomoh class monitor

USS Monadnock was one of four s built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Commissioned in late 1864, she participated in the First in December and Second Battles of Fort Fisher in January 1865. The ship was later assigned to the James River Flotilla on the approaches to the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia and then sailed to Spanish Cuba to intercept the Confederate ironclad CSS Stonewall. Monadnock was then docked for a few months to prepare her for her transfer to California around the tip of South America. The monitor and her escorts departed in late 1865 and reached the Chilean port of Valparaíso in early 1866 where the Americans unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the Spanish from bombarding the undefended town during the Chincha Islands War. The ships reached California in June and Monadnock was decommissioned at the end of the month. The monitor was sold for scrap in 1874. The Navy Department evaded the Congressional refusal to order new ships by claiming that the Civil War era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of the same name.

The Miantonomoh class were designed by John Lenthall, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, although the ships varied somewhat in their details. Monadnock was 259 feet (79 m) long overall, had a beam of 52 feet (16 m) and had a draft of 12 feet (4 m). Her crew consisted of 150 officers and enlisted men. She was designed to carry of coal.

Her main battery consisted of four smoothbore, muzzle loading, Dahlgren guns mounted in two twin gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the single funnel. The sides of the hull of the Miantonomoh class ships were protected by five layers of wrought iron plates that tapered at their bottom edge down to total of , backed by of wood. The armor of the gun turret consisted of ten layers of one inch plates and the pilot house had eight layers. The ship's deck was protected by armor thick. At ranges of she bombarded the fortification and continued throughout the day. The following morning she resumed shelling the fort as 2,000 Army troops under the command of General Benjamin F. Butler landed 3 mile (5 km) north of the fort. The soldiers were withdrawn later that day when Butler received word of approaching Confederate troops and worsening weather that would prevent him from evacuating his troops. Although the Navy had believed that its fire was accurate and effective,

A second assault was begun on the morning of 13 January 1865 with the ironclads the first to fire in the hopes of provoking the Confederate gunners to retaliate and reveal the positions of their gun so that they could be engaged by the rest of the fleet. The ironclads had anchored to make their fire more accurate and Monadnock kept up a slow and deliberate fire during the day and into the night. Resupplying ammunition at night the ship kept up her fire through the 15th. After Rear Admiral David D. Porter ordered that his ships were to aim at the walls of Fort Fisher rather than the flag, the bombardment was much more effective and many guns were dismounted or disabled. Monadnocks side armor was struck five times during the battle with little damage inflicted; the turrets and the ventilation pipe were also hit five times with no damage recorded. One of the monitor's sailors, Quartermaster William Dunn, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Fort Fisher engagements. After the Confederates abandoned Charleston and its surrender on 18 February, Monadnocks crew took possession of the blockade runner the following day and the monitor entered Charleston Harbor on the 20th. After a stay at Port Royal, South Carolina, she steamed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 15 March On 2 April, she steamed to support the final assault on Richmond and then assisted in clearing the river of naval mines. Returning to Hampton Roads on 7 April, The French built ship had been ordered by the Confederacy, embargoed and sold to Denmark in 1864 and resold to the Confederacy in January 1865. Delayed by rudder problems, she was en route to the United States and ultimately made landfall in Spanish Cuba on 15 May. The squadron departed two days later and put into Charleston Harbor on the 22nd to re coal and to be reinforced by the monitor Canonicus before continuing on to Havana, Cuba. They arrived on 28 May to find that the Stonewall had been temporarily turned over to the Spanish government. Monadnocks presence no longer required, she arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 12 June and continued onwards to the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to prepare for her impending voyage to California. Monadnock departed on 5 October in company with the paddle frigates Vanderbilt and Powhatan and the sloop Tuscarora. the squadron transited the Strait of Magellan and arrived at Valparaíso in late March 1866 as a Spanish squadron was preparing to bombard the undefended town, contrary to international law, during the Chincha Islands War. Commodore John Rogers, commander of the American squadron, attempted to persuade Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez to forego the bombardment, but the latter claimed it was a point of Spanish honor. Rogers even had his ships clear for action in an unsuccessful attempt to intimidate Méndez Núñez and was prepared to open fire if he received support from the small British squadron in the harbor. That was not forthcoming as the British minister in the town forbade Rear Admiral Joseph Denham to act and Rogers was forced to stand down. Monadnocks arrival at Acapulco coincided with a Mexican siege of the town's French defenders during the Second French intervention in Mexico. The squadron continued on to San Francisco, anchoring off that city on 21 June. On 26 June she proceeded to Vallejo, and entered the Mare Island Navy Yard where she was decommissioned on 30 June. Although Congress was informed by the Navy Department that the Civil War era ship was being repaired, a new iron hulled monitor of the same name was built with repair money and the proceeds of her sale because Congress refused to fund any new construction at this time.