U.S.S. HECTOR
The fuel ship HECTOR was built in 1908-1909 by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow
Point, Maryland. She was launched July 3, 1909, and was of the following dimensions:
length, 385 feet; breadth, 53 feet; displacement 11,250 tons.
This vessel was place in commission October 22, 1909 and assigned service on the Atlantic
coast. She carried fuel and stores for the ships of the Atlantic Fleet in routine
operations. She was in reserve at the Portsmouth, N.H. Navy Yard, from December 11, 1912 until February 16, 1914, when she was placed in full commission. She loaded
a cargo and proceeded to Manila, P.I., stopping enroute at a Mexican port, Honolulu
and Guam, and returned to Hampton Roads, Virginia, September 5, 1916. Subsequently,
she did intermittent duty in Haitian and San Domingan waters transporting passengers and
carrying stores and fuel.
She operated again off the Atlantic coast between February and July 1916, when enroute
to Charleston, S.C., the HECTOR was caught in a severe gale and completely wrecked
on July 14, 1916, off Charleston Light.
(from Navy Subject File, "HECTOR", RG 45)
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