The USS. Monocacy was built at Mare Island in San Francisco in 1914, /She_was then dismantled and shipped to Shanghai in parts, Hero she wan reassembled at the International Dock and commissioned for eorvice fon the Yangtze Patrol.
For a short while the United States iwas at war with Germany in 1917 Jond before China had entered the conflict on the side of the Allies, the Monocacy was interned at Hankow.
The Monocacy had a record of 24 years' service on the rivers of China fend along the Yangtze River she was familiar sight, having called at every port on the river from here to Chungking, On one occasion she also ventured. cut into the China Sea and sailed down the coast and up the Min River to Fooctbw. Monocacy is the name of a river in the United States and the scuttled gunboat was the second U.S, warship to bear this name.
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