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} |} USS ''Marcellus'' was an iron schooner-rigged collier United States Navy Auxiliary ship in service with the United States Navy from 1898 to 1910. She participated in the U.S. Navy's first efforts in coaling warships while underway at sea. She was rammed by a commercial steamer in the early morning hours of 9 August 1910 and sank that afternoon without loss of life. ==Acquisition and commissioning== The USS ''Marcellus'' was built by Mounsey and Foster, South Dock, Sunderland, England. Originally christened as SS ''Mercedes'', she was launched on 5 April 1879 for the British shipping firm Adamson & Ronaldson. In September 1881 she was purchased by the Dutch Stoomvaart Maatschappij Insulinde and renamed SS ''C. Fellinger''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/smi.shtml )〕 In 1886, she was obtained by Adolf Kirsten's Hamburg Pacific Dampfschiffs Linie (HPDL) and renamed as SS ''Titania''. In 1898, she changed owners again when HPDL sold its ships to their competitor, Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Kosmos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/kirsten.shtml )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/kosmos.shtml )〕〔 She was purchased from William Lamb by the United States Navy on 13 June 1898〔 for service in the Spanish–American War and named for Marcus Claudius Marcellus. As was the practice of the time, many colliers purchased to support the war were named for classic characters. Commissioned as USNA ''Marcellus'' in Boston, Massachusetts on 28 September 1898, with Lieutenant Commander J. H. Winslow in command.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Marcellus (1879)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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