. "--11-30"^^ . "300"^^ . . . . "The USS Florida (BM-9) was an Arkansas-class monitor in the United States Navy. Florida was launched 30 November 1901 by Lewis Nixon and Arthur Leopold Busch, a marine engineer who worked at the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey; sponsored by Miss S. Wood; and commissioned 18 June 1903, with Commander John Charles Fremont in command."@en . "The USS Florida (BM-9) was an Arkansas-class monitor in the United States Navy. Florida was launched 30 November 1901 by Lewis Nixon and Arthur Leopold Busch, a marine engineer who worked at the Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey; sponsored by Miss S. Wood; and commissioned 18 June 1903, with Commander John Charles Fremont in command."@en . . . . . . . . . "USS Tallahassee tending to the and in Hampton Roads, 1919"@en . "USS Florida (BM-9)"@en . . . . . . .