USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)

USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)
History
German Empire
Name	SS Rhein
Namesake	the Rhine river (German: Rhein)
Owner	North German Lloyd
Port of registry	Bremen
Route	1900: Bremen–Baltimore 1901: Bremen – New York 1901: Bremen – Suez Canal – Australia 1902–1911: From Bremen variously to New York, Baltimore, or Philadelphia
Builder	Blohm & Voss Hamburg, Germany
Launched	20 September 1899
Maiden voyage	Bremen – New York, 9 December 1899
Fate	Interned in Baltimore, 1914; seized by United States, 6 April 1917
United States
Name	USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)
Namesake	Susquehanna River
Acquired	6 April 1917
Commissioned	5 September 1917
Decommissioned	27 August 1919
Fate	turned over to United States Shipping Board
United States
Name	SS Susquehanna
Owner	United States Shipping Board
Operator	1921: United States Mail Steamship Company 1922: United States Lines
Route	1921: New York – Bremen – Danzig 1922: New York – Plymouth – Cherbourg – Bremen
Fate	laid up, August 1922; sold for scrapping in Japan, November 1928
General characteristics
Class and type	Rhein-class ocean liner
Tonnage	10,058 GRT
Length	152.70 m (501 ft 0 in) lbp 158.50 m (520 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam	17.83 m (58 ft 6 in)
Draft	8.50 m (27 ft 11 in)
Propulsion	2 quadruple-expansion steam engines twin screw propellers
Speed	13–14 knots (24–26 km/h; 15–16 mph)
Crew	140–174
Notes	1 funnel, 4 masts
General characteristics as USS Susquehanna
Displacement	17,857 t
Length	520 ft (160 m)
Beam	58 ft 1 in (17.70 m)
Draft	28 ft (8.5 m)
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	514
Armament	4 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 2 × machine guns

USS Susquehanna (ID-3016) was a transport for the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second U.S. Navy ship to be named for the Susquehanna River. Before the war she operated at SS Rhein, an ocean liner for North German Lloyd. She was the lead ship of her class of three ocean liners. After the end of World War I, the ship operated briefly in passenger service as SS Susquehanna. Laid up in 1922, Susquehanna was sold to Japanese ship breakers in 1928 and scrapped.