USS Edgar F. Luckenbach (ID-4597)

SS Edgar F. Luckenbach, probably around the time of her completion in 1916.
History
United States
Name:	USS Edgar F. Luckenbach
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Completed:	1916
Acquired:	11 July 1918
Commissioned:	11 July 1918
Decommissioned:	30 October 1919
Fate:	Returned to owner 30 October 1919
Notes:	Served as commercial cargo ship SS Edgar F. Luckenbach 1916-1918 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type:	Cargo ship and troop transport
Tonnage:	7,923 gross tons
Length:	442 ft 2 in (134.77 m)
Beam:	57 ft 3 in (17.45 m)
Draft:	31 ft 6 in (9.60 m)
Propulsion:	Steam engine
Speed:	12 knots
Complement:	70
Armament:	1 × 5inch (127-millimeter) gun 1 × 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) gun

USS Edgar F. Luckenbach (ID-4597) was a cargo ship and troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.

SS Edgar F. Luckenbach, named for her owner Edgar Fredrick Luckenbach, Sr., was built as a commercial cargo ship in 1916 at Newport News, Virginia, by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. The United States Army chartered her for World War I service in 1917, and she spent about a year operating for the Army with a U.S. Navy Naval Armed Guard detachment aboard.

On 11 July 1918, Edgar F. Luckenbach was transferred to the U.S. Navy, which commissioned her the same day at New Orleans, Louisiana, as USS Edgar F. Luckenbach with Lieutenant Commander A. H. Sears, USNRF, in command. Placed in service with the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Edgar F. Luckenbach departed New Orleans on 14 July 1918 and joined a convoy at New York City bound for France. She offloaded her U.S. Army cargo at Le Verdon-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Bordeaux, and Royan, then returned to the United States, arriving at Newport News on 26 September 1918. She then made her second and last wartime voyage as a U.S. Navy ship between New York and Marseilles, France.