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Home Town Westerly, Rhode Island
Last Address Baltimore, Maryland
Date of Passing Mar 06, 1939
Location of Interment Riverbend Cemetery - Westerly, Rhode Island
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NEC 111X-Unrestricted Line Officer - Surface Warfare
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USS Terror (BM-4) Details
Amphitrite Class Monitor: Displacement 3,990 Tons, Dimensions, 263 x 55.5 x 14.5 feet/80.2 x 16.91 x 4.47 meters. Armament 2 dual 10/30, 2 6-pound, 2 3-pound. Armor, 6-14" Belt, 14" barbettes, 8" Turrets, 10 " Conning Tower. Machinery, HC engines, 6 boilers, 2 shafts, 1,600 hp. Speed, 12 Knots, Crew 150 (163-191 wartime).
Operational and Building Data: Built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, PA. Laid down 1874, suspended 1876, resumed 1882, launched 24 March 1883, delivered 1887, transferred to New York Navy Yard for completion, commissioned 15 April 1896. Operated in the north Atlantic, then around Cuba and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War; bombarded San Juan 12 May 1898. Reduced to commissioned reserve 18 October 1898; decommissioned to reserve 25 February 1899. Recommissioned late 1901 as a training ship at the Naval Academy. Reduced to commissioned reserve 11 September 1905; decommissioned to reserve 8 May 1906.
Fate: Stricken for use as a target ship 31 December 1915, designated Target D. Sold 10 March 1921 but sank off Shooter's Island, NY; raised and scrapped 1930.
Chain of Command THE NEW YORK COMMANDERY NAVAL AND MILITARY ORDER:
Spanish-American War To date of July 1, 1908.
DUNN, HERBERT OMAR (No. 241, New York Commandery). Commander United States Navy. Services : Watch and Division Officer USS Terror during the month of April, 1898, blockading Cardenas, Cuba; captured the Spanish steamers Guido and Bolivar, and the Spanish sailing vessels Tres Hermanos, Lorenzo, Mascotta and Carlos Rosas; May 4, joined Admiral Sampson in his expedition to Porto Rico ; May 12, engaged the forts at San Juan, P. R., for three hours; returned to the coast of Cuba, and during May and June engaged in blockad- ing Havana and defending Key West; Guantanamo Bay, July 17, 1898; July and August, assisting the army at Ponce, Guanica and Porto Rico; from April 2, 1900, to March 4, 1901, Navigating Officer of the USS Buffalo; Lieutenant Commander, July I, 1900.
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Distinguished Service Medal, Military Order of St. Benedict of Aviz in Portugal, China's Military order of the Dragon, Order of the Spanish-American War, and the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan.
