Postcard: U.S.S. Patricia, former German Liner, now in transport service, Hoboken, July 1919.

Archive

Scope and ContentPostcard: U.S.S. Patricia, former German Liner, now in transport service, Hoboken, July 1919. Real photo postcard (Azo stamp block), 3-3/8" x 5-3/8" wide; unused. See notes for history of this ship, a former Hamburg American Line passenger ship, S.S. Patricia. It only served in 1919 from March to September in the U.S. Army Transport Service at Hoboken which was a Port of Debarkation (previously the Port of Embarkation.) View of the vessel at a dock with an army truck in the foreground.

Entry/Object ID

2011.005.0264

Acquisition

Accession

2011.005

Source or Donor

Lukacs, Claire

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1919 - 1919

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1919 Date(s): 1919

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Notes: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia USS Patricia (1899) [photo] USS Patricia at Boston, 28 April 1919 Career Name: USS Patricia Builder: AG Vulcan Stettin Launched: 1899 Acquired: 26 March 1919 Commissioned: 28 March 1919 Decommissioned: 13 September 1919 Struck: 13 September 1919 Fate: Delivered to Great Britain, 18 September 1919 General characteristics Type: Troopship Displacement: 12,500 long tons (12,701 t) Length: 560 ft 3 in (170.76 m) Beam: 62 ft 3 in (18.97 m) Draft: 32 ft (9.8 m) Speed: 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) Complement: 569 officers and enlisted Armament: None USS Patricia was a troop transport of the United States Navy immediately after World War I. She was originally the German steamship SS Patricia, a 14,446 gross ton passenger liner built in 1899 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan, Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg-America Packet Steamship Company. Service history.Following the World War I Armistice she was temporarily allocated to the United States on 26 March 1919 for use by the U.S. Army to bring service personnel home from the former European war zone. She was placed in commission on 28 March 1919 as USS Patricia (with no identification number assigned), at Cowes, England, Lt. Comdr. C. C. Windsor in command. [photo] U.S. troops are entertained about Patricia on their way home from World War IShe began service on the Brest–New York run on 30 March 1919, making four voyages to the U.S., carrying a total of 8,865 servicemen. On 11 June 1919, just after leaving the port of New York, she helped beach SS Graf Waldersee, damaged in a collision, removed one-half of her crew and all of her passengers. Patricia then again began the crossing to Brest. Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 September 1919, the ship was delivered to Great Britain on 18 September 1919 for use by Ellerman's Wilson Line. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2011-12-22