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Photo # NH 97668: USS Von Steuben in New York Harbor, 1919

U.S. NAVY TEMPORARY AUXILIARY SHIPS, 1917-1919

WORLD WAR I ERA TRANSPORTS --
with Four Smokestacks

Three WWI era U.S. Navy transports had four smokestacks. All were originally German passenger liners completed in 1901-1906 and seized by the U.S. Government in 1917. They were similar in size and appearance, with long, low superstructures and stacks spaced amidships in groups of two, in the German style (British four-stack liners had their funnels evenly spaced). Two had three masts and one had two.

This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy transports with four smokestacks, plus one photograph of every ship in this group.


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Ships in this group:

ONE SHIP -- FOUR SMOKESTACKS and TWO MASTS:

  • Von Steuben, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kronprinz Wihelm, 1901).
    • 14,908 Gross Tons, Length 637.3', Beam 66.3', Comm. 9 Jun 17, Decom. 13 Oct 19, ID # 3017

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     USS Von Steuben during World War I:


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    TWO SHIPS -- FOUR SMOKESTACKS and THREE MASTS:

  • Mount Vernon, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kronprinzessen Cecilie, 1906).
    • 19,503 Gross Tons, Length 685.4', Beam 72.2', Comm. 1 Aug 17, Decom. 29 Sep 19, ID # 4508
  • Agamemnon, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1903).
    • 19,361 Gross Tons, Length 684.3', Beam 72.3', Comm. 21 Aug 17, Decom. 27 Aug 19, ID # 3004

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     USS Mount Vernon, February 1919:

     USS Agamemnon, circa 1919:



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