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USS Mars (AC-6)
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 USS Mars (Collier #6) (1900 - 1920)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal
Vulcan Class Collier:
  • Laid down, 5 October 1908 at Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 10 April 1909
  • Commissioned USS Mars (Collier No. 6), 26 August 1900, at Norfolk, VA., Master A. B. Randall, Naval Auxiliary Service, in command
  • Decommissioned, 3 July 1912, at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Recommissioned, 11 December 1912
  • Decommissioned, 15 July 1913
  • Recommissioned, 8 May 1914
  • Designated USS Mars (AC-6), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 27 December 1921
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 April 1923
  • Sold, 22 June 1923, for commercial service to John E. Walsh, Boston, MA.
  • Final Disposition, ran aground off Diaquire, Cuba, and abandoned, 8 November 1924
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,250 t.
    Length 403'
    Beam 53'
    Draft 24' 8" (mean)
    Speed 12.65 kts.
    Complement 82
    Armament 4 .50 cal machine guns
    Propulsion coal fired steam turbine, single propeller
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    Vulcan 75k USS Mars (AC-6) dry docked at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA. 16 March 1921. Photographed by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 324 First Street, Portsmouth, VA.
    US Navy photo # NH 105183 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970.    		 Robert Hurst
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