SS Samuel Mather (disambiguation)
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Seven merchant ships have been named SS Samuel Mather.
- SS Samuel Mather (1887)SS Samuel Mather (1887)The SS Samuel Mather was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden Mather sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay from Point Iroquois, ending the Mather's 4 year career...
, U.S. propellerPropellerA propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blade, and a fluid is accelerated behind the blade. Propeller dynamics can be modeled by both Bernoulli's...
, bulk freighter, Official No. 116142. - SS Samuel Mather (1892), U.S. propeller-whalebackWhalebackA cargo steamship of unique design, with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal leaving, when fully loaded, only the rounded portion of the hull above the waterline, was unofficially called a "whaleback". With sides curved in towards the ends, it had a...
, Official No. 116484. - SS Samuel Mather (1906), U.S. propeller, Official No. 203407.
- SS Samuel Mather (1926), U.S. propeller, Official No. 225409.
- William Mclauchlan, U.S. propeller built in 1926, renamed Samuel Mather from 1966–1975, Official No. 226176.
- Henry II Ford, U.S. propeller built in 1924, renamed Samuel Mather from 1989 - 1994 but never operated as Samuel Mather, Official No. 223,980.
- Frank Armstrong, U.S. propeller built in 1943, renamed Samuel Mather in 1976, Official No. 243425.