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Show MONITOR PURITAN H USELESS IN NAVY Vessel Costing the Government $3,395,-465 $3,395,-465 Twenty Years Ago to Be Sold as Junk. WASHINGTON. June 11. Worthless except as Junk, the old monitor- Puritan. jH which was sunk recently In Hampton IH Roads by a high explosive test and sub- IB sequentlv raised, will bo sold to tho high- IH est bidder If thb recommendations of an jH examining board to the navy department Is adopted. The board found that the cost of ropairing the vci.sel would be ex- cessivc nnd recommended that she be sold for not less than $12,000. The Puritan, built about twenty years ago, was regarded as one of the most powerful coast defense vessels In the world. She cost the government J3,30n.-16.'. J3,30n.-16.'. ncnrlv as much as the groat buttle- ship Delaware, oxeluslve of her armor nnd IH armament The Puritan's only active service was during the Spanish-American IH war. with the monitor tleet. which opur- IH ated in the West Indian waters, without notable result. |