January 26, 1922

The USS Arkansas (M-7), also known as the USS Ozark (BM-7)—one of four monitor-class naval vessels built for the U.S. Navy in the late 1800s—was finally sold as scrap metal after having served various assignments in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Launched on November 10, 1900, the Arkansas had been renamed the Ozark in 1909 and was refitted as a submarine tender in 1913. It sailed into the port at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was decommissioned before its final dismantling and its sale as scrap metal in 1922.