USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)

USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)
History
German Empire
Name:	SS Rhein
Namesake:	the Rhine river (German: Rhein)
Owner:	North German Lloyd
Port of registry:	Bremen
Route:	1900: Bremen–Baltimore 1901: Bremen – New York 1901: Bremen – Suez Canal – Australia 1902–1911: From Bremen variously to New York, Baltimore, or Philadelphia
Builder:	Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany
Launched:	20 September 1899
Maiden voyage:	Bremen – New York, 9 December 1899
Fate:	Interned in Baltimore, 1914; seized by United States, 6 April 1917
United States
Name:	USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)
Namesake:	Susquehanna River
Acquired:	6 April 1917
Commissioned:	5 September 1917
Decommissioned:	27 August 1919
Fate:	turned over to United States Shipping Board
United States
Name:	SS Susquehanna
Owner:	United States Shipping Board
Operator:	1921: United States Mail Steamship Company 1922: United States Lines
Route:	1921: New York – Bremen – Danzig 1922: New York – Plymouth – Cherbourg – Bremen
Fate:	laid up, August 1922; sold for scrapping in Japan, November 1928
General characteristics
Class and type:	Rhein-class ocean liner
Tonnage:	10,058 GT
Length:	152.70 m (501 ft 0 in) lbp 158.50 m (520 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam:	17.83 m (58 ft 6 in)
Draft:	8.50 m (27 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:	2 quadruple-expansion steam engines twin screw propellers
Speed:	13–14 knots (24–26 km/h)
Crew:	140–174
Notes:	1 funnel, 4 masts
General characteristics as USS Susquehanna
Displacement:	17,857 t
Length:	520 ft (160 m)
Beam:	58 ft 1 in (17.70 m)
Draft:	28 ft (8.5 m)
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:	514
Armament:	4 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 2 × machine guns

USS Susquehanna (ID-3016) was a transport for the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second U.S. Navy ship to be named for the Susquehanna River. Before the war she operated at SS Rhein, an ocean liner for North German Lloyd. She was the lead ship of her class of three ocean liners. After the end of World War I, the ship operated briefly in passenger service as SS Susquehanna. Laid up in 1922, Susquehanna was sold to Japanese ship breakers in 1928 and scrapped.

SS Rhein was launched on 20 September 1899 by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, Germany, for North German Lloyd. The ship was 152.70 metres (501 ft 0 in) long between perpendiculars (158.50 metres (520 ft 0 in) overall) was 58 feet 1 inch (17.70 m) abeam, and had a draft of 8.5 metres (28 ft). The ship's two quadruple-expansion steam engines turned her twin screw propellers that drove her at speeds of 13 to 14 knots (24 to 26 km/h).

Rhein sailed from Bremen to New York on 9 December 1899 for her maiden voyage, and began regular Bremen–Baltimore service in May 1900. Later that same year, Rhein served as a transport carrying German Empire troops as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance intended to put down the Boxer Rebellion in China. From September to November 1901, Rhein sailed on a Bremen – Suez Canal – Australia route.

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