History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Vulcan |
Namesake | Vulcan |
Builder | Maryland Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland |
Laid down | 5 October 1908 |
Launched | 15 May 1909 |
Commissioned | 2 October 1909 |
Decommissioned | 4 May 1912 |
Recommissioned | 25 February 1914 |
Decommissioned | 20 July 1921 |
Reclassified | AC-15, 17 July 1920 |
Stricken | 26 April 1923 |
Fate | Sold, 12 December 1923 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Collier |
Displacement | 11,250 long tons (11,430 t) |
Length | 403 ft (123 m) |
Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 8 in (7.52 m) (mean) |
Depth of hold | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) |
Speed | 12.82 kn (14.75 mph; 23.74 km/h) |
Complement | 82 |
Armament | None |
USS Vulcan (Collier No. 5/AC-5) was a collier of the United States Navy.
The second ship to bear the name, she was laid down on 5 October 1908, at Sparrows Point, Maryland, by the Maryland Steel Company, launched on 15 May 1909, and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 2 October 1909.