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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
SS Katrina Luckenbach (U.S. Freighter, 1918);
Later USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID # 3020), 1918-1919
Katrina Luckenbach, a steam turbine powered freighter
of 8074 gross tons, was built in 1917-18 at Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Navy chartered her for World War I service soon after construction
was completed, placing her in commission in May 1918 as USS Katrina
Luckenbach. Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation
Service, she carried supplies to Europe beginning in June 1918.
In December 1918, after the end of the fighting, she was transferred
to the Cruiser and Transport Force and converted to a troop
transport for use bringing American military personnel home
from the former war zone. USS Katrina Luckenbach was decommissioned
and returned to her owners in November 1919.
This page features all the views we have concerning the
freighter Katrina Luckenbach and USS Katrina Luckenbach
(ID # 3020).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 101797
Katrina Luckenbach (U.S. freighter, 1918)
Photographed upon completion, circa spring 1918, still wearing
her builder's hull number (# 265). Constructed by Bethlehem Steel
Company's Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, she was
chartered by the Navy and commissioned on 18 May 1918 as USS
Katrina Luckenbach (ID # 3020).
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43022
Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918.
The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly
(DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun
(DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull
numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively.
The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull
# 267, which served as USS Katrina Luckenbach in 1918-19.
Most of the equipment on the pier is for her.
Note the large submarine being built in the background, under
the revolving crane.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102950
Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
Ships at the Navy Yard, circa October 1918. They are (from left
to right):
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID # 3020); and
USS Rondo (ID # 2488).
All are painted in pattern camouflage.
Collection of Arthur J. Rozett.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102951
Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
Ships at the Navy Yard, circa October 1918. They are (from left
to right center):
USS Paul Jones (Destroyer # 10);
USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID # 3020); and
USS Rondo (ID # 2488).
All three are wearing pattern camouflage.
A steam launch from USS Indiana (Battleship # 1) is in
the center foreground. U.S. Navy Divers Float # 2 is in
the left foreground.
Collection of Arthur J. Rozett.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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The following photograph MAY show USS Katrina Luckenbach:
Photo #: NH 104494
Troops embarking on a U.S. Navy transport
At American Bassens, France, for passage home to the United States,
1919.
This ship is a former Luckenbach Lines freighter, either USS
Edward Luckenbach (ID # 1662), USS Julia Luckenbach
(ID # 2407), USS F.J. Luckenbach (ID # 2169), USS K.I.
Luckenbach (ID # 2291) or USS Katrina Luckenbach (ID
#3020).
The original photograph is printed on postcard ("AZO"
stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Page made 6 April 2001
New image added 25 July 2007