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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --
Nansemond (American Passenger-Cargo Ship). Formerly
the German steamship Pennsylvania, 1896.
Served as USS Nansemond (ID # 1395) in 1919
Nansemond, 13,333 gross ton passenger-cargo ship, was
built in 1896 at Belfast, Ireland, for civilian employment. Prior
to World War I, she was the German steamship Pennsylvania.
Interned in the United States during the first part of the conflict,
she was seized when the U.S. entered the war. She was renamed
Nansemond by the U.S. Shipping Board, and the Army Cargo
and Transport Service used her until shortly after the fighting
ended. Transferred to the Navy in January 1919, she was commissioned
as USS Nansemond (ID # 1395) and made several voyages to
and from Europe as a cargo carrier and troop
transport. Nansemond was decommissioned in September
1919 and returned to the Shipping Board. The ship was scrapped
in 1924.
This page features all the views we have concerning the
passenger-cargo ship Nansemond (formerly the German steamer
Pennsylvania of 1896) and USS Nansemond (ID # 1395).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 102051
Nansemond (Passenger-Cargo Steamer, 1896)
Photographed circa 1917-1918, after installation of guns. The
German steamship Pennsylvania was interned in the United
States during the first part of World War I. She was seized when
the U.S. entered the war in 1917 and renamed Nansemond
by the U.S. Shipping Board. Used by the Army during 1917-18,
she was commissioned on 20 January 1919 as USS Nansemond
(ID # 1395). The ship was decommissioned on 16 September 1919
and returned to the Shipping Board.
The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103076
USS Nansemond (ID # 1395)
Photographed with troops on board in 1919, probably while arriving
in a U.S. East Coast port at the end of a voyage from Europe.
The original image is printed on postal card ("AZO")
stock.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 465 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 104809
USS Nansemond (ID # 1395)
In port in 1919, while employed transporting U.S. service personnel
home from Europe.
Photographed by Holladay, Newport News, Virginia and printed
on post card ("AZO") stock as one of a series of views
entitled "The Ship (or, in this case "Boat") that
Brought Us Home".
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Page made 19 April 2002
New image added 28 May 2007