Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-22 | Page 8 | [Illegible] of Monitors Goes to Junk Pile

It it to of Monitors Goes to Junk Pile fORE Jan 22 AP AP Trall Trall- Trall at the end of ot a ae aeL e eL 11 a once proud monitor and ot her type moved today totter to- to l' l grave The U. U S. S S S. S Chey- Chey iwas was breasting her final sea destination destination-a a junk pile atton atton at atton ton Roads I. I of t four sister ships laid down Cheyenne originally the ing sing started her death march with the V U. S. S S. S Owl a navy Stealing ahead like a con- con executioner The assee assee the last of her sisters Ithe the acetylene torch twenty 1 a ago o. o years ars back In American his his- the monitor type embodied In M 1 Ericsson's Monitor Nemesis Monitor Nemesis of ot Merrimac revolutionized naval Ice Monitors maintained Pres- Pres blockade of ot South South- orts during the CiVil Chill war J resent and last monitor liv oseo see her once once powerful all belittled by modern develop- develop epitomized naval progress SS she served as a mother ship on the Atlantic and arid during the World war war Cheyenne then the Wyoming was the first naval vessel to toI the thrust of ot mod modern rn oil burn- burn I engines Experiments conducted Wyoming have since led navy department to take steps to M he ei t conversion of ot all remaining 1 burners