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Susquehanna (ID 3016)



Call sign (1926):
Love - Tare - Nan - Sail

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
World War I Victory Medal


Acquired Transport:
  • Built by Blohm & Voss, Steinwerder, Germany (YN 137)
  • Launched, 20 September 1899
  • Completed for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, as passenger/cargo ship Rhein, 04 December 1899
  • Interned at Baltimore, 29 July 1914
  • Seized by American government, April 1917
  • Transferred to the Navy by the United States Shipping Board, 12 July 1917
  • Converted to troop transport at Norfolk Navy Yard
  • Acquired by the Navy and commissioned USS Susquehanna (ID 3016) at Norfolk, 05 September 1917
  • Decommissioned and transferred to the United States Shipping Board, 27 August 1919
  • Struck from the Navy Register, 16 September 1919
  • Returned to US Shipping Board
  • Put into service with United States Mail Company (ON 219189), 04 August 1920
  • Laid up, September 1922
  • Final disposition, broken up at Yokohama, 25 February 1929
    Specifications:
    Hull Steel
    Displacement 17857 tons
    Length 520' 0"
    Beam 58' 5"
    Draft 28' 7"
    Speed 14 knots
    Complement 514
    Armament
    four 6"/40 single mounts
    two 1-pounders
    two machine guns

    Propulsion
    two quadruple expansion steam engines
    two double ended and three single ended boilers
    two shafts
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    Size Image Description Source
    SS Rhein
    Susquehanna 113k Undated postcard Tommy Trampp
    Susquehanna 447k Photo from "Passenger Liners of the World Since 1893" (1979) by Nicholas T. Cairis
    Susquehanna 50k This tobacco card was issued by Ogdens Ltd in the U.K. in 1902 and came from the set entitled "Ogdens Guinea Golds" New Series 1.
    Susquehanna 244k 15 April 1908
    Dinner menu
    Susquehanna 133k
    Susquehanna 415k A family photo of Austrian Jews immigrating to Philadelphia in 1913.
    Left to right: Minnie Zinn, Abe Milgraum, Tante (Aunt) Chava Zinn, Reba Milgraum and Bella Zinn. Standing in front: Harry Zinn
    Nick Block
    USS Susquehanna (ID 3016)
    Susquehanna 34k Unidentified crewman Tommy Trampp
    Susquehanna 26k Postcard with inscription on back "Ed Larkin taken in the year 1918 on the boat Susquehanna"
    Susquehanna
    1217301615
    186k =
    RPPC, fitting out for naval service at Norfolk, 1917.
    Dave Wright
    Susquehanna 117k Underway, circa 1917-1919.
    U.S. Navy Photo NH 43544
    Naval Historical Center
    Susquehanna 34k Under tow by French tug at St Nazaire, France, 17 January 1919
    Photo Q 70873 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums part of the American First World War Official Exchange Collection
    Robert Hurst
    Susquehanna 87k Underway, circa 1919, with her decks crowded with troops returning home from France.
    Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.
    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972.
    U.S. Navy Photo NH 58840
    Naval Historical Center
    Susquehanna 104k In port, 1919.
    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 104120
    Robert Hurst
    Susquehanna 105k In port prior to the removal of her guns, circa early 1919
    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 105839
    Susquehanna 111k Coaling, 1919 with two coal barges alongside, one marked "A.T.S." and another with mechanical coaling apparatus installed
    Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 105973

    Commanding Officers
    01CAPT Zachariah Harvey Madison, USN - USNA Class of 1899
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1920) - Retired as Captain
    5 September 1917 - 22 August 1918
    02CDR Allen Bevins Reed, USN - USNA Class of 1904
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1920) - Retired as Captain
    22 August 1918 - 27 August 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan and Wolfgang Hechler

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