Category:Mercury (ship, 1851)

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Ship

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  • Type: Full-Rigged Ship, 2 Decks
  • Design by:
  • Order date:
  • Built by: Jacob A, Westervelt, New York United States
  • Yard No:
  • Keel laid:
  • Launch date: 3 September 1851
  • Date of completion: 1851
  • Length over all: 60 m or 193 ft 6 in
  • LPP: m
  • Beam: 12,1 m or 38 ft 10 in
  • Draught: 6,9 m or 22 ft 2 in
  • GRT: 1156
  • DWT:
  • NET:
  • Sail area:
  • Speed: kn

History

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  • 1851 Named: MERCURY for Boyd, Hincken and others, part of the Havre Second Line Flag: United States
  • 1869 Collision at sea, repaired by Westervelt
  • 1869 Sold to New York City Department of Public Charities and Correction, 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
  • 1877 Sold at auction to William Nelson, Jr. for $6,600
  • 1888 Bought by Renton, Holmes & Co. of San Francisco California
  • 1898 Wrecked in Skagway Harbor and re-floated for use as a barge by Captain Elmer E. Caine of Seattle Washington
  • 1900 Wrecked near Bering Sea and abandoned

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