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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.
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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.
Collier Clarence Hornsby was born in Columbia, Mississippi. [53] He was in the US Army before joining William Walker. [54] After the military, Hornsby took part in the Nicaragua expedition with Walker in 1855. [55] Hornsby only agreed to join Walker in taking over Nicaragua if he received the title as captain. [54]
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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The SS Ulysses (Panama Collier No. 1) was the first of two steel-hulled, twin screw colliers constructed at Sparrows Point, Maryland by the Maryland Steel Company for the Panama Canal Company. [ note 1 ] The ships were to a Navy design and built under naval supervision but with major differences from the two previously constructed Navy colliers ...
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