USS Pocahontas (ID-3044)
USS Pocahontas underway in 1919 | |
| History | |
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| German Empire | |
| Name | Prinzess Irene |
| Namesake | Princess Irene of Hesse |
| Owner | Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Port of registry | Bremen |
| Route | Bremen – New York |
| Builder | AG Vulkan, Stettin |
| Yard number | 245 |
| Launched | 19 June 1900 |
| Completed | 6 September 1900 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Seized by the United States, 1917 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Pocahontas |
| Namesake | Pocahontas |
| Acquired | Seized, 1917 |
| Commissioned | 25 July 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 7 November 1919 |
| Fate | Returned to USSB, 1919. Sold for scrap, 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 10,893 GRT, 6,443 NRT |
| Displacement | 18,000 long tons (18,289 t) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 60.2 ft (18.3 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Depth | 34.7 ft (10.6 m) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Installed power | 2 × quadruple-expansion engines; 1,016 NHP |
| Propulsion | 2 × screws |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 610 officers and enlisted |
| Sensors & processing systems | submarine signalling |
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USS Pocahontas (SP-3044) was a transport ship for the United States Navy in World War I. She was originally the Reichspostdampfer Prinzess Irene, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1900 by AG Vulcan of Stettin, Germany, for Norddeutscher Lloyd.
At the beginning of World War I, the ship was in New York. Later, she was interned by the United States. She was seized when that country entered the conflict in 1917 and converted to a troop transport. As USS Pocahontas, she carried 24,573 servicemen to Europe, and after the war returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States.
Decommissioned by the U.S. Navy, the United States Shipping Board sold her back to the North German Lloyd line, where she saw mercantile service until being scrapped in 1932.