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A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal.Early evidence of coal being transported by sea includes use of coal in London in 1306. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, coal was shipped from the River Tyne to London and other destinations.
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This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats.The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function.
The 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.
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USS Nereus (AC-10) was one of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy before World War I.Named for Nereus, an aquatic deity from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
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