USS "Brutus", formerly the steamer "Peter Jebsen", was built in 1894 at South Shields-on-Tyne, England, by John Readhead & Sons and was acquired by the United States Navy early in 1898 from L. F. Chapman & Company.
USS "Brutus", formerly the steamer "Peter Jebsen", was built in 1894 at South Shields-on-Tyne by John Readhead & Sons and was acquired by the United States Navy early in 1898 from L. F. Chapman & Company. South Shields-on-Tyne was England.