High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Hannibal (AG-1), a converted steamer, was built as Joseph Holland by J. Blumer Company at Sunderland, England, in 1898. She was purchased by the United States Navy on 16 April 1898 and renamed Hannibal. She was commissioned on 7 June with Commander Harrison Gray Otis Colby (USNA 1867) in command.