Category:USS Marcellus (ship, 1879)
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Ship
[edit]- Type: Originally passenger / cargo ship, later U.S. Navy Auxiliary collier
- Built by: Mounsey and Foster, Sunderland, England
- Yard No: 94
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1879.04.05
- Completed: 1879.05.20
- Length over all: 295.3 ft
- Beam: 35.0 ft
- GRT: 2072
- DWT:
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History
[edit]- 1879 Named Mercedes; Flag: United Kingdom
- Official number: 81539
- Port: London
- Owner: Adamson & Ronaldson, London
- 1881 Renamed C. Fellinger
- Owner: N.V. Stoomvaart Mij. Insulinde, Amsterdam
- 1886 Renamed Titiana
- Owner: A. Kirsten, Hamburg / Hamburg Pacific Dampschiffs Linie A.G.
- 1898 Renamed Marcellus
- Owner: DDG Kosmos
- 1898.06.13 Sold to U.S. Navy; Flag: United States
- 1910.08.09 Collided with Norwegian ship Rosario di Gregario and sank 60 miles off Cape Hatteras
Media in category "USS Marcellus (ship, 1879)"
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