Category:Mercury (ship, 1851)

Ship[edit]

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• Built by: Jacob A, Westervelt, New York United States
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• Date of completion: 1851
• Length over all: 60 m
• LPP: m
• Beam: 12,1 m
• Draught: 6,9 m
• GRT: 1156
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• Speed: kn

History[edit]

• 1851 Named: MERCURY for Boyd, Hincken and others Flag: United States
• 1869 Collision at sea, repaired by Westervelt
• 1869 Sold to board of directors of the schoolship, refitted as schoolship
• 08.04.1869 Start of practice cruise
• 16.04.1869 Went on shore twelve miles south of Cape Henry, Virginia
• 04.05.1869 Floated off, towed to Norfolk, and from there to New York.
• 03.11.1969 Rammed by the Navy sail and steam-driven screw propeller one-funnel sloop-of-warship Albany as the school ship lay at anchor off the Battery
• 20.12.1870 Sailed from Hart's Island
• 14.02.1871 Arrived at Sierra Leone after stop-overs at Madeira and the Canary Islands.
• 21.02.1871 Left there