Category:Mercury (ship, 1851)
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Ship
[edit]- Type:
- Design by:
- Order date:
- Built by: Jacob A, Westervelt, New York United States
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- Launch date:
- 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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- Sail area:
- 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
Media in category "Mercury (ship, 1851)"
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Medium Clipper Mercury by James E. Buttersworth.jpg 648 × 512; 244 KB
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School ship Mercury 1872.jpg 850 × 502; 344 KB
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StateLibQld 1 140583 Mercury (ship).jpg 1,000 × 604; 100 KB