&sq=&lang=&file=File:SS_Pennsylvania_(1896).jpg) Pennsylvania about 1897–1900
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| History | |
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| Port of registry | |
| Route | Hamburg – New York |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 302 |
| Launched | 10 September 1896 |
| Completed | 30 January 1897 |
| Acquired | seized by USA, April 1917 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy, 20 January 1919 |
| Decommissioned | from US Navy, 25 August 1919 |
| Maiden voyage | 30 January 1897 |
| Reclassified | troop ship, 1917 |
| Refit | 1910, 1919 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | P-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 13,265 GRT, 8,527 NRT |
| Displacement | 25,000 long tons (25,401 t) |
| Length | 559.4 ft (170.5 m) |
| Beam | 62.2 ft (19.0 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 5 in (8.66 m) |
| Depth | 30.0 ft (9.1 m) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Installed power | 695 NHP |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity | passengers:
1897: 162 1st class, 197 2nd class, 2,382 3rd class 1910: 404 2nd class, 2,200 3rd class |
| Troops | at least 2,327 |
| Complement | as troop ship: 399 |
| Crew | in civilian service: 250 |
| Sensors and processing systems | submarine signalling |
| Armament |
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| Notes | sister ships: Pretoria, Graf Waldersee, Patricia |
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SS Pennsylvania was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Ireland in 1896 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the first of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that were built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.
In 1917 the US Government seized Pennsylvania and renamed her Nansemond. She was a troop ship with the Army Transport Service until the end of the First World War. In 1919 the US Navy operated her as the troop ship USS Nansemond (ID-1395).
In August 1919 the Navy returned Nansemond to the United States Shipping Board, who had her converted to a cargo-only ship. She was scrapped in 1924.