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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Amphion (ID # 1888), 1919-1919.
Previously the German Passenger Liner Köln (built
1899) and the U.S. Army Transport Amphion (1917-1919)
USS Amphion, a 7409 gross ton transport,
was built in 1899 at Geestemunde, Germany, as the civilian passenger
liner Köln. She was interned in the United States
when World War I began in August 1914 and was seized by the U.S.
Government upon America's entry into the conflict in April 1917.
For the rest of the war she served as the U.S. Army transport
Amphion. In October 1918 she had a running gunfire engagement
with a German submarine, receiving shell damage and losing two
crewmen killed and six wounded, but was able to reach port and
undergo repairs.
The ship was turned over to the Navy in 1919 and, in April
of that year, was placed in commission as USS Amphion (ID
# 1888). During the next five months she made three round-trip
voyages to France as part of the vast effort to bring home American
service personnel. Amphion was decommissioned in September
1919 and transferred to the U.S. Shipping Board. She was sold
for scrapping in 1924.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
Amphion (ID # 1888).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 99175
USAT Amphion (U.S. Army Transport, 1899)
Photographed in port, circa 1917-1919.
The German passenger liner Köln was seized by the
U.S. Government in 1917 and served during World War I as the
U.S. Army Transport Amphion. She was placed in commission
as USS Amphion (ID # 1888) in April 1919 and decommissioned
in September 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 330 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 85820
USS Amphion (ID # 1888)
In port, circa 1919, probably while bringing U.S. service personnel
home from Europe.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 480 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 104735
USS Amphion (ID # 1888)
Arriving in a U.S. port (probably Newport News, Virginia) while
transporting U.S. service personnel home from Europe, 1919.
Photographed by Holladay, Newport News, as one of "The Ship
That Brought Us Home" post card series.
The original photograph was printed on "AZO" post card
stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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USAT Amphion (which later became USS Amphion)
is partially visible in the right background of the following
photograph of another ship:
Photo #: NH 105617
USAT Amphion (ID # 1888), in background
This photograph may have been taken when Amphion was inspected
by the Third Naval District in March 1919. Amphion is
the ship in the background to the right. The bow in the foreground
may belong to USS Rappahannock (ID # 1854, later AF-6)).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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