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Collier No. 15 / AC-15 Brutus

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Spanish Campaign Medal - Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport Clasp)
Brutus Class Collier:
  • Built in 1894 as SS Peter Jebsen by J. Readhead and Sons, South Shields-on-Tyne, England
  • Acquired by the US Navy at San Francisco, 21 April 1898
  • Commissioned USS Brutus (Collier No. 15), 27 May 1898, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., LT. Vincendon L. Cottman, in command
  • Decommission, 20 October 1899, at Apra Harbor, Guam
  • Recommissioned, 25 December 1899
  • Decommissioned, 16 February 1900, at Apra Harbor
  • Recommissioned, Fall 1900
  • Decommissioned, 29 August 1901, at New York Navy Yard
  • Recommissioned, 8 March 1902
  • Decommissioned, 13 May 1908, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Recommissioned, 3 January 1909
  • Decommissioned, 20 May 1912, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Designated (AC-15), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned 17 August 1921
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 29 July 1922
  • Final Disposition, sold 29 July 1922, to A. Bercovich Co., Oakland, CA., fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,000 t. 6,550(fl.)
    Length 332' 6"
    Beam 41' 6"
    Draft 23' 6"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement 63
    Armament two 6-pdrs
    Propulsion steam engine, single propeller
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    Brutus 77k Brutus being repainted into wartime gray, off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 28 May 1898. She had been commissioned on the previous day. Photo courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, 1970.
    US Navy photo # NH 71722 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Brutus 72k Brutus being repainted into wartime gray while at anchor in the Mare Island Channel, off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 28 May 1898. Note the steam gig alongside.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # AC 15 002-5-1898    		 Darryl Baker
    Brutus 94k Brutus at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1964.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Brutus 72k Forward view of Brutus moored to the seawall at Navy Yard Mare Island, March 1899.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # AC 15 001-3-1899    		 Darryl Baker
    Brutus 78k Forward view of Brutus at Navy Yard Mare Island, March 1899.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # AC 15 001-4-1899    		 Darryl Baker
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    DANFS History entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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