SS Mexico
SS Mexico is the name of several ships.
List
[edit]- SS Mexico (sank 1837), a sailing ship, an American barque that wrecked in 1837 at Hempstead Beach, Near Rockaway, Long Island, New York, United States[1][2][3]
- SS Mexico, a ship in service in 1849 on the U.S. West Coast[4]
- SS Mexico (1851), a steamship, a U.S. sidewheel steamer built in New York in 1851 as a river steamer, that served in the American Civil War on both sides, as CSS General Bragg for the Confederates, and captured by the Union in 1862, becoming USS General Bragg.[5]
- SS Mexico (wrecked 1886), a sailing ship, a German barque which wrecked off England in 1886.[6][7][8]
- SS Mexico (1890), a steamship, a British screw steamer built in Belfast in 1890, that was wrecked in 1895 at Belle Isle, Newfoundland[9]
- SS Mexico (sank 1914), a sailing ship, a Norwegian schooner that wrecked off the Keeragh Islands in County Wexford, Ireland, during 1914[10][11][12]
- SS Mexico (1898), a ship of the Ward Line, later becoming Colon and then Yukon, and wrecked in 1946 at Johnstone Bay, Prince William Sound, Alaska, United States.[13][14]
- SS Mexico (1906), a ship of the Ward Line
- SS Mexico (1933), a ship of the Ward Line
- SS Mexico Victory, the Mexico, a Victory ship built in 1944 by the U.S. for WWII duties
See also
[edit]- USS New Mexico
- New Mexico-class battleship
- USS Mexican
- SS Mexique
- Wreck of the Mexico (disambiguation), various shipwrecking incidents involving ships named Mexico
Notes
[edit]- "S. S." has been variously used to refer to a sailing ship, a steamship (any kind of steam-power-propelled ship) , a screw steamer (a steam-powered ship with screw propellers for propulsion)
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County New York". Picryl.
- ^ Armburster, Eugene L. (June 1914). Long Island: Its Early Days and Development (PDF). History of Long Island. Vol. XXIX. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 31. Eagle Library 182. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2020.
- ^ Sewel, H. (2 January 1837), Dreadful Wreck of the Mexico on Hempstead Beach, 63.550.95, archived from the original on 10 November 2024, retrieved 28 October 2024
- ^ Millard, Bailey (1924). History of the San Francisco Bay Region. Vol. 2. The American Historical Society. p. 103. historyofsanfran02mill. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010.
- ^ "General Bragg (side-wheel ram)". Naval History and Heritage Command. U.S. Navy. 10 July 2015.
- ^ "The Lytham Life-Boat "Charles Biggs" Which Was Launched to the S.S. "Mexico" In 1886" (PDF). The Life-Boat: The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. XXIII (258). Royal National Life-Boat Institution: 66–67. 1 November 1915.
- ^ Martyn Griffiths. "The Mexico disaster of 1886". Wrecks off the Southport Coast.
- ^ "A ship with three identities: the Mexico disaster, 1886", Wreck of the Week, Historic England, 27 February 2023
- ^ "SS Mexico (+1895)". Wrecksite.eu. 2019. 153264.
- ^ "Closing of the Wexford Station". The Life-Boat: The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. XXVL (284): 71. May 1925.
- ^ "A Life-boat Hero" (PDF). The Life-Boat: The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. XXIII (258). Royal National Life-Boat Institution: 66. 1 November 1915.
- ^ "Fetherd Lifeboat Disaster: A Tale of Bravery and Sadness" (PDF). O’Rourke Family. 12 November 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2017.
- ^ Bob Norris (2014). The Dust Bowl to WWII. Xlibris Corporation LLC. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-4990-4673-1.[better source needed]
- ^ "Colon SS (1906~1923) Yukon SS (+1946)". wrecksite.eu. 142662.
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