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Show OLD WAR VESSEL DURNCD. Dattlethlp Uied In Civil War De ttroyed In Quantanamo Day, I Washington Tho navy dcpartmnjl has rrcclvcd word that tho oldtiT ship .Monnngahem had burned to bo water's edgo nt her station nt 0am-tnnsmn 0am-tnnsmn bay, No lives wcro toil In the destruction of Iho boat. Hhe lai ono of tho old unserxtcenblo woslen vessels of tho navy, having been eon-strticted eon-strticted nt Philadelphia during Iho clxll wnr Hhe was used as n sttUon and store ship at fluantnnamn. The Monongaheln took a prominent put In tho operations on the MfssMppI during 1803. nnd at xarlnus tlmei faring far-ing Hint period was commandos' by tho then Lieutenant (Icorge Dtirey mill Uetitenant Wlnlleld Hcott SeiuVjr, and was for n time Admiral Isrrs gut's llagshlp Following the clill war. tint Monnngiilteta was used n a training ship for midshipmen i&d tp prentice seamen |