USS Brutus
Collier of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Brutus, formerly the steamer Peter Jebsen, was a collier in the United States Navy. She was built in 1894 at South Shields-on-Tyne, England, by John Readhead & Sons and was acquired by the U.S. Navy early in 1898 from L. F. Chapman & Company. She was renamed Brutus and commissioned at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 27 May 1898.
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USS Brutus being repainted into wartime grey, 28 May 1898. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Brutus |
Namesake | Marcus Junius Brutus |
Builder | John Readhead & Sons |
Launched | February 1894 |
Acquired | 1898 |
Commissioned | 27 May 1898 |
Decommissioned | 17 August 1921 |
Stricken | 29 July 1922 |
Fate | Sold 1920, scrapped 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 6,550 tons |
Length | 332 ft 6 in (101.35 m) |
Beam | 41 ft 6 in (12.65 m) |
Draft | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
Speed | 10 knots |
Complement | 63 |
Armament | 2 × 6-pounders |
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