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} |} United States Navy Auxiliary ship ''Sterling'' was an iron, schooner-rigged collier in service with the United States Navy from 1898 to 1919. Originally purchased to transport coal for United States Navy ships during the Spanish–American War, she served in that role until sold in 1919. While serving as the Chilean flagged steamer, ''Llai Llai'', she was rammed by a Chilean warship on 11 March 1920 and sank near Iquique, Chile. ==Commercial service history== The USS Sterling was built by Robert Duncan and Company, Port Glasgow, Scotland. Originally christened as SS ''Lamington'', she was launched on 23 August 1881 for the shipping firm Renton and Company, Glasgow, who planned to use her on their Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia route. By July 1891, ''Lamington'' was transporting coal from the east coast of the United States, when she was rammed by the Old Dominion Steamship Company's ''Guyandotte'' off Lambert's Point, Virginia. In 5 February 1896 the ''Lamington'', hauling fruit from Valencia, Spain to New York ran aground 15 miles east of the Fire Island Lighthouse. Life saving crews from the Coast Guard Stations at Blue Point, Lone Hill and Bellport were able to rescue much of her crew from the wreck using breeches buoys on the first day. Salvage operations began almost immediately by men and tugs from the Merritt Wrecking Company, which likely kept her from breaking up during a storm that swept waves in over the deck and pushed her farther inland. At the first break in the storm the remaining crew, and one small Spanish pony, were rescued. After her cargo was removed, she was refloated on 26 February and towed to New York. The Merritt Company, awarded the salvage rights to the battered wreck of the ''Lamington'', sold it for 17,500 dollars to C. A. Campbell and Company of Boston, Massachusetts, who planned to use her to work the coal trade. By April 1897, with her home port in Boston and renamed ''Sterling'', she was moving coal along the United States' Atlantic coast, from as far south as Newport News, Virginia to as far north as Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 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 Sterling (1898)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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