USS Powhatan (ID-3013)
{{short description|United States military transport ship}}
{{other ships|USS Powhatan}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS Powhatan (ID-3013).jpg |Ship caption=USS Powhatan (ID-3013) docked at New York City. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=German Empire |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|German Empire|civil}} |Ship name=Hamburg |Ship namesake=Hamburg |Ship owner=Hamburg America Line |Ship operator= |Ship registry=Hamburg |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=*AG Vulcan, Stettin |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number=243 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=25 November 1899 |Ship identification= *code letters RLNC
|Ship fate=Interned by the US, 1914; seized, 1917 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States}} |Ship name=USS Hamburg (ID-3013) |Ship acquired=6 April 1917 |Ship commissioned=16 August 1917 |Ship renamed=USS Powhatan (ID-3013), 5 September 1917 |Ship namesake=Powhatan, father of Pocahontas |Ship decommissioned=2 September 1919 |Ship fate=Sold into merchant service; sold for scrap 1928 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Barbarossa|ocean liner|1}} |Ship tonnage={{GRT|10531}}, {{NRT|6420}} |Ship length={{cvt|544|ft|11.5|in|abbr=on}} overall |Ship beam={{cvt|60|ft|2|in|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{cvt|30|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship depth={{cvt|34.7|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship decks=4 |Ship power= 1,016 NHP |Ship propulsion= *2 × quadruple-expansion engines
|Ship speed={{cvt|16|knots|km/h}} |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=533 |Ship armament=*4 × 6-inch/40-caliber guns
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USS Powhatan (ID–3013) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally Hamburg, a {{sclass|Barbarossa|ocean liner}} built in 1899 by AG Vulkan of Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg America Line. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States.
She was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914.
When the US entered World War I in April 1917, she was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS Hamburg (ID-3013), the ship was renamed Powhatan on 5 September 1917. During World War I, she carried 15,274 troops to France and after the war she returned 11,803 servicemen to the United States.
After decommissioning by the US Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board, and chartered for mercantile service until broken up in 1928.
History
= ''Hamburg'' =
Hamburg was originally intended to be named Bavaria. She was renamed only a month before launching. On completion, SS Hamburg served the Hamburg-Far East (until 1904 when Hapag and NDL no longer combined on the mail route), Hamburg-New York and Genoa-New York runs for the Hamburg America Line. The ship was also twice used by Kaiser Wilhelm II as his state yacht for foreign visits, during which time the ship was painted white overall.{{cite book | title = Great Passenger Ships of the World Vol 1 1858-1912 | author = Arnold Kludas | isbn = 0-85059-174-0 | publisher= Patrick Stephens Ltd | page = 24}}
= ''Red Cross'' =
File:Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad (1915) (14781982685).jpg
Due to British Royal Navy control of the seas she was caught in New York at the outbreak of World War I.
Chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe and renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914SS Red Cross Passenger List – 13 September 1914 at https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Passengers/HamburgAmericanLine/RedCross-PassengerList-1914-09-13.html and called at Falmouth, England; Paulliac, France; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before recrossing the Atlantic in October with American refugees on board. She remained at New York for the next two and a half years.
= USS ''Hamburg'' and USS ''Powhatan'' =
The ship was commissioned as the troop transport USS Hamburg by the United States Navy on 16 August 1917, with Commander Gatewood Lincoln in command. She was renamed Powhatan on 5 September 1917 and began the first of 12 consecutive Atlantic crossings on 12 November 1917. Powhatan was twice attacked by a submarine in the Bay of Biscay on 4 April 1918 but survived unscathed due to prompt location and depth charging by escorting destroyers. From 12 November 1917 to 9 December 1918, she carried 15,274 troops to France and after the war she returned 11,803 servicemen to the United States.
Powhatan was decommissioned on 2 September 1919 and was turned over to the Army Transport Service at New York, and finally to the United States Shipping Board.
= ''New Rochelle'' and ''President Fillmore'' =
In August, 1920, the ship was renamed New Rochelle and under charter to the Baltic Steamship Corp of America, sailed from New York to Danzig. On 11 February 1921 she sailed under charter to the United States Mail Steamship Company on the same run, and in May she was again renamed Hudson
On charter to the United States Lines in August 1921, she sailed from New York to Bremen, before being renamed President Fillmore in 1922. After round the world service with the Dollar Line of San Francisco, she was sold for breaking up in 1928
References
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- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/powhatan-iv.html}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/id3013.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212223045/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/id3013.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2012|title=Online Library of Selected Images:-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS -- USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919 |access-date=22 November 2011}}
- {{cite book |year=1914 |title=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |volume=I.–Steamers |place=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping}}
- {{cite book |author=The Marconi Press Agency Ltd |author-link=Marconi Company |year=1913 |title=The Year Book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony |place=London |publisher=The St Katherine Press}}
External links
- {{navsource|12/173013|Powhatan}}
- {{cite web | publisher=GG Archives |url=https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Passengers/HamburgAmericanLine/RedCross-PassengerList-1914-09-13.html |title=SS Red Cross Passenger List – 13 September 1914 |date=13 September 1914}} – Special Passenger List of Doctors, Nurses, and Officers for the SS Red Cross of the Hamburg America Line, Departing 13 September 1914 from New York to Falmouth, England, Commanded by Captain Armistead Rust, U.S.N. (Retired).
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Category:Ships built in Stettin
Category:Ships of the Hamburg America Line
Category:Steamships of the United States
Category:Transport ships of the United States Army