The ship as Seneca
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History | |
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Namesake |
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Owner |
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Operator | 1918: United States Navy |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Wigham Richardson, Low Walker |
Yard number | 365 |
Launched | 11 September 1900 |
Completed | October 1900 |
Commissioned | 9 February 1918 |
Decommissioned | 21 April 1919 |
Identification |
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Fate | scrapped, 1924 |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | 5,448 GRT, 3,516 NRT |
Displacement | 10,475 tons |
Length | 381.0 ft (116.1 m) |
Beam | 49.9 ft (15.2 m) |
Depth | 26.6 ft (8.1 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 460 NHP; 2,500 ihp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13.5 knots (25 km/h) maximum; 11.4 knots (21 km/h) cruising |
Complement | in US Navy: 93 |
Sensors and processing systems | by 1911: submarine signalling |
Armament |
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Notes | sister ship: Löwenburg |
USS Wabash (ID-1824) was a cargo steamship. She was launched in Germany in 1900 for DDG „Hansa“ as Wartburg. In 1905 Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) bought her and renamed her Tübingen. In 1917 the United States seized her and renamed her Seneca. In 1918 she was commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Wabash. She was scrapped in Italy in 1924.
She was the second of three DDG „Hansa“ ships to be named after Wartburg castle in Thuringia. The first was launched in 1888; sold and renamed in 1900; and abandoned in 1903.[1] The third was launched in 1905; surrendered to the Allies and renamed in 1919; and scrapped in 1932.[2]
She was the first of two NDL ships to be called Tübingen. The second was built in 1929 from the salvaged part of a British ship called Delaware; sold in 1935; and sunk in 1945.[3]
She was one of several ships to be called Seneca, and the second of four ships to be called USS Wabash.