SS Bohemia
USAT Artemis (U.S. Army Transport, 1917-1919) in port during or immediately after World War I.
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| Namesake: | An Olympian goddess known to the Romans as Diana. Artemis was the twin of Apollo and the patroness of wildlife |
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| Builder: | Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, Ireland |
| Yard number: | 349 |
| Launched: | 5 July 1902 |
| Completed: | 11 November 1902 |
| Acquired: | by the United States Army in April 1917; by the United States Navy 23 February 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 8 April 1919 as USS Artemis (ID-2187) at Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Decommissioned: | 18 October 1919 at Brooklyn, New York |
| Struck: | By the U.S. Navy 18 October 1919 |
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| Captured: | Seized by American customs officials after the United States entered World War I in April 1917 |
| Fate: | returned to the United States Shipping Board; later transferred to the British for use as a blockship at Normandy in 1944 |
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| Type: | passenger steamship |
| Tonnage: | 8,414 gross tons |
| Displacement: | 17,837 long tons (18,123 t) |
| Length: | 500 ft 5 in (152.53 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft 3 in (17.75 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Depth: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Installed power: | 814 hp (607 kW) |
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| Speed: | 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 329 officers and enlisted |
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USS Artemis (ID-2187), also known as the USAT Artemis, was a German passenger liner seized by U.S. Customs at New York City at the start of American involvement in World War I. She was built in 1902 as Iowa and was renamed Bohemia in 1912. She served the United States Army as the transport USAT Artemis, and, at war’s end, she was transferred to the United States Navy as a transport for returning American troops and military equipment from Europe.
Postwar, she was transferred to the United States Shipping Board (USSB) (later the United States Maritime Commission (USMC)) and served as a merchant ship until 1941, when she was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), becoming one of the Empire ships, Empire Bittern. In July 1944, Empire Bittern was sunk as a blockship in support of Operation Overlord.
Iowa was a steel-hulled, twin-screw passenger steamship built by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast. She was yard number 349 and was launched on 5 July 1902. Completion was on 11 November 1902.Iowa was 500 ft 5 in (152.53 m) long, with a beam of 58 ft 3 in (17.75 m) and a depth of34 ft (10 m). She was powered by a 814 hp (607 kW) 6-cylinder triple expansion steam engine which had paired cylinders of 23.5 in (60 cm), 39 in (99 cm) and 66 in (170 cm) diameter by 48 in (120 cm) stroke, giving her a speed of 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h).
Iowa was built for the White Diamond Steamship Company Ltd, Liverpool. She was operated under the management of George Warren & Co Ltd. In 1913, Iowa was sold to the Hamburg Amerika Line and renamed Bohemia.
The outbreak of hostilities in Europe in the summer of 1914 stranded many German and Austrian ships, Bohemia amongst them, in American ports. Because of her German registry, she was seized by American customs officials after the United States entered World War I in April 1917.
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