The first USS Saturn (AG-4) was an iron collier in the United States Navy.
Saturn was launched during 1890 by Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, Wilmington, Delaware; was purchased on 2 April 1898 by the United States Navy from the Boston Towboat Company for service in the Spanish-American War; and commissioned on 11 April 1898, Commander Samuel W. Very in command.
Famous quotes containing the word saturn:
“The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)