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Present in the american order of battle on 13 August and the bombardment of Fort San Antonio de Abad were two ships other than those that had been involved in previous operations, Albert A. Nofi, The Spanish-American War, 1898, p. 286, citing the captured gunboat Callao and the monitor Monterey, “which had arrived as scheduled on 4 August.” With reference to the Callao, this ship was captured on 12 May when, unaware of the outbreak of war and the events of 1 May, it returned to Manila Bay after an extended cruise in the Philippines; see Donald H. Dyal, Historical Dictionary of the SpanishAmerican War, p. 54. It was commissioned into U.S. service on 2 July; see the ship’s entry in Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol. 2, p. 16. With reference to the Monterey, there is some confusion about its arrival in the Philippines not least because the official record, in the form of the “Movements of Vessels” section in the Annual Report of the Navy Department. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Miscellaneous Reports for 1898 and 1899 are different. The 1898 report (p. 346) states that the ship sailed on 11 June from San Diego (in the company of a collier, according to its entry in Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol. 4, pp. 426–427), that it was at Pearl Harbor between 24 June and 1 July, and that it arrived in Manila Bay on 9 August. The 1899 report (p. 432) states that after leaving the Hawaiian Islands , the Monterey was at Guam between 23 and 25 July and that it was in Manila Bay after 4 August, which is the date cited by Dyal, p. 226, though other details this source gives are different. It does not appear, however, that the Monterey was actively involved in the bombardment of Fort San Antonio. Given the detail of the Guam landfall , it would seem that this second account, with the 4 August schedule, is likely to be correct. Dyal, p. 225, also states that the monitor Monadnock did not arrive in Manila Bay until 16 August; the latter date is confirmed by the ship’s entry in Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol. 4, p. 411–412, which states that it sailed from San Francisco on appendix 3.1. the actions in the philippines and the american order of battle appendix 3.1 51 23 June. This entry also states that this ship was laid down in 1874, was launched 19 September 1883, and was commissioned into service 20 February 1896. Given that it was decommissioned on 24 March 1919, it would seem that the Monadnock was almost as long being built as it was in service.1 NOTE 1. The checking of details, and specifically the 1898 and 1899 reports, was recorded by Sarandis Papadopoulos, Naval Historical Center, and communicated to a very grateful author by e-mail on 8 August 2006. ...

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