USS Proteus (AC-9)
 USS Proteus
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| Name: | USS Proteus |
| Namesake: | Proteus |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 31 October 1911 |
| Launched: | 14 September 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 9 July 1913 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 March 1924 |
| Struck: | 5 December 1940 |
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| Class and type: | Proteus-class collier |
| Displacement: | 19,000 long tons (19,000 t) full |
| Length: | 522 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 8 in (8.43 m) |
| Speed: | 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 158 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4"/50 caliber guns |
The collier USS Proteus (AC-9) was laid down on 31 October 1911, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and launched on 14 September 1912. She was the lead ship of her class of four colliers. With the threat of war looming, she was commissioned on 9 July 1913, to the United States Navy, Master Robert J. Easton, Naval Auxiliary Service, in command.
Following her fitting out and shakedown, Proteus steamed out of Norfolk, Virginia on 11 November 1913, on the first of four runs to Veracruz to coal battleships and cruisers of the Atlantic Fleet off Mexico. On 17 December 1914, Proteus left Hampton Roads carrying men, fuel, and stores to the Philippines. She completed the final of four such runs on 4 August of that year.
Sailing again from Norfolk on 25 September 1914, Proteus supplied coal, oil, men and stores for ships of the Atlantic Fleet at Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transport Service, she operated between Norfolk, Boston and New York City for the next several years.
Proteus set forth from New York on 14 July 1918, for the British Isles, returning to Hampton Roads on 19 September. She left again on Christmas Eve of 1918 for Brest, France, and spent the next six months shipping coal from Cardiff and Barry, Wales, to Brest.
Proteus returned to Norfolk on 6 August 1919, and during the greater part of the next three years cruised from Norfolk to replenish the Fleet in the Caribbean.
In the aftermath of World War I, Proteus cruised from Norfolk to replenish the U.S. Fleet in the Caribbean. Crossing the Panama Canal four times, she delivered fuel and stores to Pearl Harbor in 1920, and to Callao, Peru in 1921.
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