SS Mexico

This article is about ships named Mexico. For SS Mexico, the aircraft engine, see TNCA.

SS Mexico is the name of several ships.

List

• 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

See also

• SS Mexico Victory
• USS New Mexico
• New Mexico-class battleship
• USS Mexican
• SS Mexique
• Wreck of the Mexico (disambiguation), various shipwrecking incidents involving ships named Mexico

Notes

• "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

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3. 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
4. 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.
5. "General Bragg (side-wheel ram)". Naval History and Heritage Command. U.S. Navy. 10 July 2015.
6. "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.
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8. "A ship with three identities: the Mexico disaster, 1886", Wreck of the Week, Historic England, 27 February 2023
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10. "Closing of the Wexford Station". The Life-Boat: The Journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. XXVL (284): 71. May 1925.
11. "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.
12. "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.
13. Bob Norris (2014). The Dust Bowl to WWII. Xlibris Corporation LLC. p. 57. ISBN   978-1-4990-4673-1.^{[ better source needed ]}
14. "Colon SS (1906~1923) Yukon SS (+1946)". wrecksite.eu. 142662.