USS America (1905)
SS Amerika
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| Name: | Amerika |
| Namesake: | German spelling of America |
| Owner: | Hamburg America Line |
| Builder: | |
| Yard number: | 357 |
| Launched: | 20 April 1905 |
| Completed: | 21 September 1905 |
| In service: | 11 October 1905 |
| Out of service: | 1 August 1914 |
| Fate: | Seized by United States, April 1917 |
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 United States
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| Name: | USS America (ID-3006) |
| Owner: | United States Navy |
| Acquired: | 25 July 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 6 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 September 1919 |
| Fate: | Transferred to War Department, 26 September 1919 |
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United States
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| Name: | USAT America |
| Operator: | United States Army |
| Acquired: | 26 September 1919 |
| In service: | 26 September 1919 |
| Out of service: | 1920 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the USSB |
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 United States Lines
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| Name: | SS America |
| Owner: | USSB |
| Operator: | |
| In service: | 1920 |
| Out of service: | 1931 |
| Fate: | transferred to the War Department |
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United States
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| Name: | USAT Edmund B. Alexander |
| Namesake: | Edmund Brooke Alexander |
| Owner: | United States Army |
| Acquired: | October 1940 |
| In service: | January 1941 |
| Out of service: | 26 May 1949 |
| Refit: | May 1942 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 16 January 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 22,225 gross tons |
| Length: | 669 ft (204 m) |
| Beam: | 74.3 ft (22.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 steam engines, twin screws |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
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| Crew: | 577 |
| Differences as USS America: | |
| Displacement: | 41,500 Tons |
| Length: | 687 ft (209 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft 5 in (22.99 m) |
| Draft: | 39 ft 5.25 in (12.0206 m) |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 994 |
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USS America (ID-3006) was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War I. She was launched in 1905 as SS Amerika by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of Germany. As a passenger liner, she sailed primarily between Hamburg and New York. On 14 April 1912, Amerika transmitted a wireless message about icebergs near the same area where RMS Titanic struck one and sank less than three hours later. At the outset of World War I, Amerika was docked at Boston; rather than risk seizure by the British Royal Navy, she remained in port for the next three years.
Hours before the entry of the United States into the war, Amerika was seized and placed under control of the United States Shipping Board (USSB). Later transferred to the U.S. Navy for use as a troop transport, she was initially commissioned as USS Amerika with Naval Registry Identification Number 3006 (ID-3006), but her name was soon Anglicized to America. As America she transported almost 40,000 troops to France. She sank at her mooring in New York in 1918, but was soon raised and reconditioned. After the Armistice, America transported over 51,000 troops back home from Europe. In 1919, she was handed over to the War Department for use by the United States Army as USAT America, under whose control she remained until 1920.
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