USS Ticonderoga (1918)
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| Name: | USS Ticonderoga |
| Laid down: | 1914 |
| Acquired: | by seizure, 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 5 January 1918 |
| Fate: | Sunk in battle, 30 September 1918 |
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| Type: | Steamship |
| Tonnage: | 5,130 long tons (5,212 t) gross |
| Length: | 401 ft 1 in (122.25 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft 2 in (16.21 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
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The third USS Ticonderoga was a steamship in the United States Navy which served as a cargo ship.
She was originally built as Camilla Rickmers, a steamer, in 1914 by Rickmers Aktien Gesellschaft, at Bremerhaven, Germany, and operated by Rickmers Reederei & Schiffbau Aktien Gesellschaft. She was seized by United States Customs officials in 1917; turned over to the Navy; fitted out as an animal transport; renamed Ticonderoga; and commissioned at Boston in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) on 5 January 1918, Lt. Comdr. James J. Madison, USNRF, in command.
Ticonderoga departed Boston on 16 January and reached Newport News, Virginia, three days later. There, she loaded a cargo of automobiles, trucks, animals, and sundry other Army supplies before moving north to New York City to join a convoy which sailed for France on 20 February. Ticonderoga entered port at Brest on 7 March and began discharging her cargo. She completed unloading operations and departed France on the 23rd to return to the United States. She arrived at New York on 8 April and the following day headed for Norfolk, Virginia, to undergo repairs and take on cargo before returning to New York on the 30th.
On 3 May, Ticonderoga steamed out of New York harbor once more, bound for Europe. She reached Brest on 18 May and proceeded southeast along the coast of France to the Gironde estuary where she unloaded her cargo and took on ballast for the return voyage. The transport put to sea on 10 June and entered Hampton Roads 15 days later. Ticonderoga took on another Army shipment at Newport News and joined an east-bound convoy at New York on 12 July. She delivered her cargo at the Gironde estuary once more, laying over there from 28 July to 21 August before heading home.
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