USS Bennington Monument, San Diego

The USS Bennington Monument is a 60-foot granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States. It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington, a gunboat of the United States Navy, whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay. The explosion showered the vessel with live steam and scalding water, killing 66 men and burning an additional 46. It was the worst peacetime disaster for the U.S. Navy up to that time. ()