USS Nansemond (ID-1395)

The second USS Nansemond (ID-1395), formerly SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seized by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Transport Service (ATS) throughout the war before being transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Nansemond.
Nansemond with troops aboard in 1919, probably while arriving in a United States East Coast port after a voyage from Europe
History
Name: USS Nansemond
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Laid down: 1896
Launched: 10 September 1896
Acquired: 1917
Commissioned: 20 January 1919
Decommissioned: 25 August 1919
Fate: Scrapped, 1924
General characteristics
Type: Cargo ship / troopship
Displacement: 25,000 long tons (25,401 t)
Length: 559 ft 6 in (170.54 m)
Beam: 62 ft 2 in (18.95 m)
Draft: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
Propulsion: Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw
Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement: 399 officers and enlisted
Armament:
  • 2 × 6 in (150 mm) guns
  • 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns

Assigned to NOTS, Nansemond departed New York on 4 February laden with Army supplies. She arrived St. Nazaire on 16 February, discharged her cargo, and sailed on 26 February for home carrying returning troops of the AEF, arriving Newport News on 11 March 1919. During the next four months Nansemond continued in the Transport Service returning troops and convalescents of the AEF, making one turnabout run in thirty-two days.

Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. In September the ship was sent to the National Drydock & Repair Company for refitting as a cargo only ship. Strikes delayed the work until 19 December and consideration was being given to conversion into a passenger vessel allocated to the American Line. Instead the ship was chartered to the ATS on a bareboat basis.[1]

Nansemond was scrapped in 1924.

References
  1. "Steamship Nansemond". Fourth Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office: 130. 30 June 1922. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

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