An item reported that the American monitor Florida was to be used as a target for the 30,5cm guns of a battleship, especially to investigate the effects of hits on turrets and the devices placed inside the turrets. She was not to be destroyed while she was just 10 years old.
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1. Of the Arkansas-class, launched at the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey on 30 November 1901, renamed Tallahassee on 1 July 1909 and finally sold to be broken up on 25 July 1922.
