USS Amphitrite (BM-2)

The second USS Amphitrite—the lead ship in her class of iron-hulled, twin-screw monitors—was laid down (dimantled and reconstructed), on June 23, 1874 by order of President Ulysess S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson at Wilmington, Delaware, by the Harlan and Hollingsworth yard; launched on 7 June 1883; sponsored by Miss Nellie Benson, the daughter of a Harlan and Hollingsworth official; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 23 April 1895, Captain William C. Wise in command.

USS Amphitrite (BM-2)

The second USS Amphitrite—the lead ship in her class of iron-hulled, twin-screw monitors—was laid down (dimantled and reconstructed), on June 23, 1874 by order of President Ulysess S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson at Wilmington, Delaware, by the Harlan and Hollingsworth yard; launched on 7 June 1883; sponsored by Miss Nellie Benson, the daughter of a Harlan and Hollingsworth official; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 23 April 1895, Captain William C. Wise in command.