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Monterey at Vallejo

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
M6, BM6	Monterey	15	Union Iron Wks, San Francisco	20.12.1889	28.4.1891	13.2.1893	submarine base hulk 12.1917

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	4084
Displacement full, t
Length, m	79.5
Breadth, m	18.0
Draught, m	4.52 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	5250
Max speed, kts	13.6
Fuel, t	coal 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	1100(10)
Armour, mm	Harvey and nickel steel - belt: 330 - 127, deck: 64, barbettes: 330 - 292, turrets: 203 - 190, CT: 254
Armament	1 x 2 - 305/35 Mk I, 1 x 2 - 254/31 Mk II, 6 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II
Complement	190 - 218

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Project history

Authorized under the Act of 3.3.1887. The 305mm guns were in the fore turret and the 254mm in the after one.  Her original design included an armament of 1 406mm and 1 305mm guns together with a 381mm pneumatic Zalinsky gun.

Ship protection

Steel 64mm armour deck was connected with upper edge of iron main belt. The belt tapered from 330mm at the edge of the 64mm deck over it, to 152-127mm at the lower edge, and it was possible to reduce the low freeboard on going into action by means of water ballast tanks. 305mm guns were installed in turret with 203mm sides and 330mm barbette, 254mm in turret with 190mm sides and 292mm barbette. CT had 254mm sides.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

Monterey in December 1917 became station ship at Pearl Harbor. Monterey also served as submarine base and was sold in February 1922.

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