USS Nansemond (1896)

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	1896
Purchased:
Launched:
Commissioned:	20 January 1919
Decommissioned:	25 August 1919
Fate:	Scrapped in 1924
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	25,000 tons
Length:	559 ft 6 in
Beam:	62 ft 2 in
Draught:	32 ft 8 in
Propulsion:
Speed:	13 knots
Range:
Complement:	399 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 6”, 2 3”
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Motto:

See USS Nansemond for a listing of all ships with this name.

USS Nansemond (No. 1395), formerly Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Hartland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and taken over by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service throughout the war before being transferred to the Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to NOTS, Nansemond departed New York 4 February laden with Army supplies. She arrived St. Nazaire 16 February, discharged her cargo, and sailed 26 February for home carrying returning troops of the AEF, arriving Newport News 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 USSB. She was scrapped in 1924.

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.