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December 1914
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First of the four Abercrombie class monitors, designed to use four twin 14in turrets offered to Great Britain by Charles M. Schwab, president of the American company Bethlehem Steel.
Admiral von Spee's squadron rounds Cape Horn at midnight on 1-2 December, entering the South Atlantic.