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Location: FORT ROSECRANS NATIONAL CEMETERY-POINT LOMA

City: SAN DIEGO

State: California

Zip Code: 92101

Type of Memorial: Obelisks War Monument

Year Dedicated: 1908

Access: Cemetery


IT SERVES AS A MEMORIAL TO THE CREW OF THE U.S.S. BENINGTON, A GUNBOAT OF THE U.S. NAVY WHOSE BOILER EXPLODED IN SAN DIEGO BAY IN 1905 KILLING AT LEAST 60 MEN.


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