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VULCAN’S HISTORY OCTOBER 1909 - JULY 1921 The current VULCAN (AR-5) is the second service craft to carry this name. The first VULCAN was a coaling ship of 11,250 tons displacement, 385 feet in length, 53 feet wide, mean draft of 24 feet and had a maximum speed of 12.8 knots. VULCAN was built in 1909 by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, at a cost of $479,600 for the hull and machinery. VULCAN was commissioned on 2 October 1909, and operated with the fleet along with other service ships of the Atlantic Fleet and in the West Indies. In 1911, VULCAN sailed to France to coal vessels of the Atlantic Fleet and thence on to Norway with coal for the Naval Academy Practice Squadron. VULCAN remained at the Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between July 1913 and February 1914, when she once again joined the fleet. In November 1915, VULCAN sailed to Mexico, and later served entirely in the Caribbean. VULCAN was placed out of commission in the Navy Operating Base in Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 July 1921, and was later sold.
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'V USS VULCAN HISTORY VULCAN’S NAME The God VULCAN, according to Roman mythology, was the God of Fire, and patron of metallurgy and handicrafts. He was considered the divine artificer and creator of all that was mechanically wonderful. In a quarrel between his parents Jupiter and Juno, he sided with his mother and was thrown from Mount Olympus by Jupiter. After falling for a whole day, landed on the Isle of Lemnos, where he stayed and regained favor of the mighty gods of Mount Olympus by serving as their blacksmith. All volcanoes, especially Lemnos and Etna were his workshops, where he forged the thunderbolts of Jupiter, the shield of Hercules, and the armour of Achilles. 17
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