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USS Monongahela (1862-1908)
Howard B. French (1906-1987)
Launched in 1862 as a barkentine-rigged screw steamer, Monongahela took part in the assault on Port Hudson and Mobile Bay during the Civil War. After the war, she was hit by a tidal wave while in St. Croix and carried almost a mile inland. Refloated and repaired, she served on the South Atlantic and Asiatic stations before become a supply vessel along the West Coast of South America for the Pacific Squadron. In 1890, Monongahela was rerigged as a ship, and from 1894 to 1899 served as a training ship for midshipmen at the Naval Academy. |