Category:USS Marcellus (ship, 1879)

USS Marcellus 

collier of the United States Navy
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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