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Steamship Creole (1896) / USS Solace (1898)



(2 years of service on Cromwell Line, from 1896 to 1898)

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Built in 1896 by Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia
steel hulled, two-masted, steam-powered screw
3801 / 2362 Tons, 368.2 x 44.3 x 17.1,
Engine; TE 28, 44, 74 x 54
Built for Clark & Seaman (Cromwell Steamship Line)
Lauched August 8, 1896

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sold to the US Government in May 1898 for $600,000 and renamed USS Solace


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Scrapped

Solace... Originally constructed in 1896 as the CREOLE for the Cromwell Steamship
Lines, the vessel was acquired on April 7, 1898 by the US Navy. ...
www.spanamwar.com/solace.htm

Solace
... was built in 1896 and 1897 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport
News, Va.; and was operated as the SS Creole by the Cromwell Steamship Lines ...
www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s14/solace-i.htm

Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Production Record, Part 1
... 16, Creole, 375' Passenger Steamer, Cromwell Steamship Co. New, 5 Dec 1896,
Scrapped 1930. ... 28, Comus, 405' Passenger Steamer, Cromwell Steamship Co. ...
www.hazegray.org/shipbuilding/nnsb1.htm

Solace [I] (AH-2)
... Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Newport News, Va.; and was operated as the
SS Creole by the Cromwell Steamship Lines. The ship was acquired ...
www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah2.htm

Hospital Ship (AH) Photo Index
... VA. Acquired by the US Navy from her owners, Cromwell Steamship Lines,
7 April 1898; Commissioned USS Solace, 14 April 1898; Decommissioned ...
www.navsource.org/archives/09/1202.htm

Solace... Originally constructed in 1896 as the CREOLE for the Cromwell Steamship
Lines, the vessel was acquired on April 7, 1898 by the US Navy. ...
www.spanamwar.com/solace.htm

Solace
... was built in 1896 and 1897 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport
News, Va.; and was operated as the SS Creole by the Cromwell Steamship Lines ...
www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s14/solace-i.htm

Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Production Record, Part 1
... 16, Creole, 375' Passenger Steamer, Cromwell Steamship Co. New, 5 Dec 1896,
Scrapped 1930. ... 28, Comus, 405' Passenger Steamer, Cromwell Steamship Co. ...
www.hazegray.org/shipbuilding/nnsb1.htm

Solace (AH-2)
... Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Newport News, Va.; and was operated as the
SS Creole by the Cromwell Steamship Lines. The ship was acquired ...
www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ah2.htm

Hospital Ship (AH) Photo Index
... VA. Acquired by the US Navy from her owners, Cromwell Steamship Lines,
7 April 1898; Commissioned USS Solace, 14 April 1898; Decommissioned ...
www.navsource.org/archives/09/1202.htm


(oil painting done by Antonio Jacobsen in 1892)


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