USS Powhatan (ID-3013)

USS Powhatan (ID-3013) docked at New York City.
History
German Empire
Name	Hamburg
Namesake	Hamburg
Owner	Hamburg America Line
Port of registry	Hamburg
Builder	AG Vulcan, Stettin
Yard number	243
Launched	25 November 1899
Identification	code letters RLNC by 1913: call sign DDH
Fate	Interned by the US, 1914; seized, 1917
United States
Name	USS Hamburg (ID-3013)
Namesake	Powhatan, father of Pocahontas
Acquired	6 April 1917
Commissioned	16 August 1917
Decommissioned	2 September 1919
Renamed	USS Powhatan (ID-3013), 5 September 1917
Fate	Sold into merchant service; sold for scrap 1928
General characteristics
Class and type	Barbarossa-class ocean liner
Tonnage	10,531 GRT, 6,420 NRT
Length	544 ft 11.5 in (166.103 m) overall
Beam	60 ft 2 in (18.34 m)
Draft	30 ft (9.1 m)
Depth	34.7 ft (10.6 m)
Decks	4
Installed power	1,016 NHP
Propulsion	2 × quadruple-expansion engines 2 × screws
Speed	16 kn (30 km/h)
Complement	533
Armament	4 × 6-inch/40-caliber guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 2 × machine guns

USS Powhatan (ID–3013) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally Hamburg, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by AG Vulkan of Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg America Line. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States.

She was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914.

When the US entered World War I in April 1917, she was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS Hamburg (ID-3013), the ship was renamed Powhatan on 5 September 1917. During World War I, she carried 15,274 troops to France and after the war she returned 11,803 servicemen to the United States.

After decommissioning by the US Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board, and chartered for mercantile service until broken up in 1928.