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USS Hector (Collier #7)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Dominican Campaign Medal
Vulcan Class Collier:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 3 July 1909
  • Commissioned USS Hector (Collier No. 7), 22 October 1909
  • Final Disposition, wrecked off the Atlantic coast, 14 July 1916, sinking three days later
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,230 t.
    Length 403'
    Beam 63'
    Draft 24' 8" (mean)
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 82
    Armament none
    Propulsion coal fired steam turbine, single propeller
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    Hector 78k USS Hector (Collier #7) at anchor in New York Harbor, 3 October 1911, at the time of the Naval Review there.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-61-8-10 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Hector 37k USS Hector (Collier #7) underway, date and location unknown. Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914." Robert Hurst
    Hector 70k USS Hector (Collier #7) view of the after part of the ship, photographed from her forward part, sometime after she was wrecked off the U.S. Atlantic Coast on 14 July 1916.
    US Navy photo # NH 53696 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Hector 91k USS Hector (Collier #7) view on board the ship's after part, looking forward along the port side, some time after she was wrecked off the U.S. Atlantic Coast on 14 July 1916.
    US Navy photo # NH 53697 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Vessel
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Loss of the USS Hector (AC-7), July 1916
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