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{{short description|Collier of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Proteus}}

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|Ship country= United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag}}
|Ship name=USS ''Proteus''
|Ship namesake=[[Proteus]]
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|Ship builder=[[Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding|Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]]
|Ship laid down=31 October 1911
|Ship launched=14 September 1912
|Ship acquired=
|Ship commissioned=9 July 1913
|Ship decommissioned=25 March 1924
|Ship in service=
|Ship out of service=
|Ship struck=5 December 1940
|Ship honors=
|Ship fate=*Sold, 8 March 1941
*Lost at sea, November 1941
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|Ship class=''Proteus''-class [[Collier (ship type)|collier]]
|Ship displacement={{convert|19000|LT|t|abbr=on}} full
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|Ship complement=158 officers and enlisted
|Ship armament=4 × [[4"/50 caliber gun]]s
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The [[Collier (ship type)|collier]] '''USS ''Proteus'' (AC-9)''' was laid down on 31 October 1911, by the [[Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company]], and launched on 14 September 1912. She was the lead ship of her class of four colliers. She was commissioned on 9 July 1913, to the [[United States Navy]].

==Service history==
Following her fitting out and shakedown, ''Proteus'' steamed out of [[Norfolk, Virginia]] on 11 November 1913, on the first of four runs to [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Veracruz]] to coal [[battleship]]s and [[cruiser]]s of the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic Fleet]] off [[Mexico]]. On 17 December 1914, ''Proteus'' left [[Hampton Roads]] carrying men, fuel, and stores to the [[Philippines]]. She completed the final of four such runs on 4 August of that year.

Sailing again from Norfolk on 25 September 1914, ''Proteus'' supplied coal, oil, men and stores for ships of the Atlantic Fleet at [[Rio de Janeiro]] and [[Montevideo]]. Assigned to the [[Naval Overseas Transport Service]], she operated between Norfolk, Boston and New York City for the next several years.

''Proteus'' set forth from New York on 14 July 1918, for the British Isles, returning to Hampton Roads on 19 September. She left again on Christmas Eve of 1918 for [[Brest, France]], and spent the next six months shipping coal from [[Cardiff]] and [[Barry, Wales]], to Brest.

''Proteus'' returned to Norfolk on 6 August 1919, and during the greater part of the next three years cruised from Norfolk to replenish the Fleet in the Caribbean.

In the aftermath of [[World War I]], ''Proteus'' cruised from Norfolk to replenish the U.S. Fleet in the [[Caribbean]]. Crossing the [[Panama Canal]] four times, she delivered fuel and stores to [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1920, and to [[Callao, Peru]] in 1921.

Her last supply run to the Caribbean ended at Hampton Roads on 12 April 1923. ''Proteus'' spent the remainder of her career in operations between Norfolk and [[Melville, Rhode Island]].

She decommissioned at Norfolk on 25 March 1924 and remained inactive until her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 5 December 1940. She was sold to Saguenay Terminals Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec on 8 March 1941 and thereafter operated in the [[Canadian Merchant Navy]] under the command of Master Walter Henry Millar.

==Loss at sea==
''Proteus'' was lost at sea to an unknown cause sometime after 23 November 1941. There are no German U-boat claims for this vessel.<ref>[https://uboat.net/forums/read.php?3,81272,95470#msg-95470 U boat.net forum]</ref> One suggestion, having no supporting documentation, is that the vessel's disappearance can be attributed to the [[Bermuda Triangle]].<ref>Eyers, Jonathan (2011), if the Bermuda Triangle can be considered a serious idea, since it was proposed in the pulp magazine Argosy, and restated in Don't Shoot the Albatross!: Nautical Myths and Superstitions. ''Don't Shoot the Albatross!: Nautical Myths and Superstitions''. A&C Black, London, UK. {{ISBN|978-1-4081-3131-2}}.</ref>

A memorial listing of her crew can be found at the [[CWGC]] Halifax Memorial.<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/400620 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]</ref> A Canadian website suggests ''Proteus''{{'}}s possible fate as having foundered in heavy seas on 25 November 1941 somewhere in the Caribbean Sea with the loss of all of her 58 crewmembers.<ref>[http://familyheritage.ca/Articles/merchant1.html Canadian Merchant Ship Losses of the Second World War, 1939-1945]</ref>

Two of ''Proteus''{{'}}s three sister-ships, {{USS|Cyclops|AC-4|2}} and {{USS|Nereus|AC-10|2}}, also vanished without a trace in the [[Bermuda Triangle]] area while doing similar duty during [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], respectively, but confer the statement above concerning the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Her third sister-ship, {{USS|Jupiter|AC-3|2}}, was converted into the very first U.S [[aircraft carrier]] and renamed {{USS|Langley|CV-1|2}}. ''Langley'' was scuttled after being severely damaged by Japanese aircraft during World War II.

==References==
{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/proteus-ii.html
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{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/24300962@N02/4153395725/in/set-72157622797896609 Photo from 1919]

{{Proteus class collier}}
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