Spanish-American War
Nahant decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 August 1865. While laid up, she was renamed Atlas on 15 June 1869, but resumed the name Nahant on 10 August. The veteran monitor recommissioned at League Island on 12 April 1898 and steamed to New York City for harbor defense during the Spanish-American War. Nahant decommissioned at League Island and was laid up there until sold on 6 April 1904, to L. E. Hunt of Melrose, Massachusetts.
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“The last time we used battleships was in the Spanish-American War. And what did we get out of that? Cuba. And we gave that back.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)