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Show MONITOR PURITAN USELESS IN NAVY WASHINGTON. June 12 Worthleas except ss Junk, the old monitor Puritan, which waa sunk recently In Hampton Roads by a hish explosive teat and subsequently sub-sequently raltted, will be sold to the high est bidder If the recommendations of an examining board to the navy department la adt.pt fd. The board found that the cost of repairing the vetael would be ex cesefve and recommended that aha be sold for not lena than 112.000. ty The Puritan, built about twenty years ajro. waa regarded aa one or the most powerful coast defense vessels In t he world. She cost the government $3,313.-46, $3,313.-46, nearly as much aa the great battle-ship battle-ship fJelaware. exclualve of her armor and armament. The Puritan's only active pen Ice was during the Spanish-American war. with the monitor fleet, which operated oper-ated in the West Indian waters, without notable result. |