| Show A monitor the monitor ia augus that took part in admiral david porters bombardment of fort fisher in december now lies dismantled at a philadelphia wharf awaiting a purchaser who needs a coal barge iier armor has been stripped off and the spinning turret removed the baugus saugus ft as one of the monitors that casting anchor within ranges of fort fisher opened fire upon it and in little more than an hour demolished all but the bomb proof portions of the fort the attacking fleet consisted of thirty five regular cruisers five iron and a reserve of nineteen other vessels according to gen grant it was the most formidable armada ever collected for concentration upon one riven R iven point the baugus saugus was built during the latter part of the war in she was sold bv the government to a philadelphia firm which inide the purchase the object of reselling to some south abc ican state in need of secondhand second hand warship the negotiations tiati ons failed and alio llio ais was dismantled jhc had been built tj lait la it for it was necessary to use dynamite in her |
