USS Powhatan (ID-3013)
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USS Powhatan (ID-3013) docked at New York City.
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| Name: | SS Hamburg |
| Namesake: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Owner: | Hamburg America Line |
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| Yard number: | 243 |
| Launched: | 25 November 1899 |
| Fate: | interned by the United States, 1914; seized, 1917 |
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| Name: | USS Hamburg (ID-3013) |
| Namesake: | Powhatan, father of Pocahontas |
| Acquired: | 6 April 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 16 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 September 1919 |
| Renamed: | USS Powhatan (ID-3013), 5 September 1917 |
| Fate: | Transferred to War Department for use by United States Army |
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| Class and type: | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 10,532 GRT |
| Length: | 544 ft 11.5 in (166.103 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft 2 in (18.34 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 533 |
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USS Powhatan (ID–3013) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally the SS Hamburg, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan of Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg America Line. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States.
She was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914.
When the U.S. entered World War I in April,1917, she was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS Hamburg (ID-3013), the ship was renamed Powhatan on 5 September 1917, During World War I, she carried 15,274 troops to France and after the war she returned 11,803 servicemen to the United States.
After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board, and chartered for mercantile service until broken up in 1928.
The SS Hamburg was originally intended to be named Bavaria, being renamed only a month prior to launching. On completion, SS Hamburg served the Hamburg-Far East (until 1904 when Hapag and NDL no longer combined on the mail route), Hamburg-New York and Genoa-New York runs for the Hamburg America Line. The ship was also twice used by Kaiser Wilhelm II as his state yacht for foreign visits, during which time the ship was painted white overall.
Due to British Royal Navy control of the seas she was caught in New York at the outbreak of World War I.
Chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe and renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914 and called at Falmouth, England; Paulliac, France; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before recrossing the Atlantic in October with American refugees on board. She remained at New York for the next two and a half years.
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