Arkansas Class Monitor (1900)

Four Arkansas class monitors were completed for the United States Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. They were the final development of the classic monitor type, as the British coast bombardment ships built during the First World War were a separate development.

Overview of four vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Arkansas	BM-7	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company	14 Nov, 1899	10 Nov, 1900	28 Oct, 1902	Sold 26 Jan, 1922
Nevada	BM-8	Bath I.W.	17 Apr, 1899	24 Nov, 1900	5 Mar, 1903	Sold 26 Jan, 1922
Florida	BM-9	Lewis Nixon Shipyard	23 Jan, 1899	30 Nov, 1901	18 Jun, 1903	Sold 25 Jul, 1922
Wyoming	BM-10	Union I.W.	11 Apr, 1899	8 Sep, 1900	8 Dec, 1902	Sold 20 Apr, 1939

Armament

Guns

As Built

• two 12-inch/40 caliber
• four 4-inch/50 caliber
• three 6-pounders

1918'

• two 12-inch/40 caliber
• four 4-inch/50 caliber
• one 3-inch/50 caliber AA gun
• three 6-pounders

Torpedoes

• nil

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

• Allen, Francis J. (1983). Roberts, John. ed. "The US Monitors Part 1". Warship Volume VII: pp. 55-59.
• Allen, Francis J. (1983). Roberts, John. ed. "The US Monitors Part 2". Warship Volume VII: pp. 134-140.
• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-715-1. (on Amazon.com).
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (2008). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947. New York: Routledge.