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Show FIVE SHIPS CUT FROM NAVY LIST Old Monitors, Terror and Mi- antonomoh, to be Used As Targets. Washington, Jan. 5. Five ships no longer fit for even reserve duty have been stricken from tho navy list by order of the department. Two of them, the old monitors Terror and Miantonomoh, now at the Philadelphia Philadel-phia navy yard, will be used as targets. tar-gets. The other ships are the old wooden steam frigate Lancaster, which has been used recently as a marine corps floating hospital; the gunboat Concord, Con-cord, at present assigned to the Washington state naval militia, and the fuel ship Justin, on duty on the wost coast. The Justin was a merchant mer-chant vessel before tho Spanish war, when she was purchased for the' navj'. The Terror and Miantonomoh were laid down in 1886, when several other old type monitors, including the Mon-adnock Mon-adnock and the Amphitrite were be-gun. be-gun. There was years of delay in completing them and the Monadnock. built at Vallejo, Cal., was later modernized mod-ernized and is now in service in the Philippines. The Miantonomoh was named after her wood and iron predecessor, prede-cessor, which crossed the Atlantic after the Civil war to be hailed as the most modern and powerful of fighting ships of her day. The Terror still is equipped with pneumatic guns and steering (gear tried out on her as an experiment before be-fore the Spanish war. The guns were supposed to hurl nitro-glycerine projectiles pro-jectiles and were believed at the time to herald the coming of a new era in naval artillery. About the same time some coast fortifications were equipped with pneumatic dynamite dyna-mite guns, long since abandoned. The gunboat Concord was with Admiral Ad-miral Dewey's fleet at the battle of Manila bay in 1898 |