USS Nansemond (ID-1395)
.jpg) Nansemond with troops aboard in 1919, probably while arriving in a United States East Coast port after a voyage from Europe
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| Name | USS Nansemond |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Laid down | 1896 |
| Launched | 10 September 1896 |
| Acquired | 1917 |
| Commissioned | 20 January 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 25 August 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1924 |
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| Type | Cargo ship / troopship |
| Displacement | 25,000 long tons (25,401 t) |
| Length | 559 ft 6 in (170.54 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft 2 in (18.95 m) |
| Draft | 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 399 officers and enlisted |
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The second USS Nansemond (ID-1395), formerly SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Hartland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seized by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service throughout the war before being transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to NOTS, Nansemond departed New York on 4 February laden with Army supplies. She arrived St. Nazaire on 16 February, discharged her cargo, and sailed on 26 February for home carrying returning troops of the AEF, arriving Newport News on 11 March 1919. During the next four months Nansemond continued in the Transport Service returning troops and convalescents of the AEF, making one turnabout run in thirty-two days.
Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. She was scrapped in 1924.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of Nansemond (ID-1395) at NavSource Naval History