USS Bennington Monument - San Diego, CA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Taken from Wikipedia, "The USS Bennington Monument is a 60-foot (18 m) granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States. It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington (PG-4), a gunboat of the United States Navy, whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay. The explosion showered the vessel with live steam and scalding water, killing 66 men (1 officer and 65 other sailors) and burning an additional 46. It was the worst peacetime disaster for the U.S. Navy up to that time.

The dead were buried at Fort Rosecrans; some were later disinterred and shipped home for burial by their families. The monument at the site of the graves was dedicated three years later, on 7 January 1908."

TITLE: Bennington Monument ARTIST(S): Unknown DATE: 1915 MEDIUM: Stone CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 75001422 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Located Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, 1800 Cabrillo Memorial Drive, P.O. Box 6237, San Diego, California 92106 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted.

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