Show A monitor the monitor h audrus 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 barc her armor has been stripped off and alic spinning turret removed the baugus saugus was one of the monitors that casting anchor within range of fort fidlier Fi slier opened fire upon it and in little more than an hour demolished all but the bombproof bomb proof portions of the fort the attacking fleet consisted of thirty five regular 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 siren point the was built during the latter part of the war in 1691 she was sold by the government to a philadelphia firm which made the purchase with the object of reselling to some south american state in need of a secondhand second hand warship the negotiations tiati ons failed and the dismantled she had been built to last for it was necessary to use dynamite in the work of unsheathing her hull |