&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Bridgeport_(ID_3009)_at_New_York_City_(USA),_on_1_October_1917_(NH_56577).png) USS Bridgeport (Id. No. 3009) at New York on 1 October 1917. She was originally the German liner SS Breslau.
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Breslau |
| Namesake | Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland) |
| Owner | North German Lloyd |
| Builder |
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| Laid down | 1901 |
| Launched | 14 August 1901[1] |
| Maiden voyage | 23 November 1901 to New York[1] |
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| Captured | Interned at New Orleans, summer 1914; Seized by the United States, April 1917 |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Bridgeport Repair Ship No. 2 |
| Namesake | Bridgeport, Connecticut[3] |
| Cost | $25,386 (refit costs)[4] |
| Acquired | Seized by the United States, April 1917 |
| Commissioned | 25 August 1917 |
| Refit | Boston Navy Yard, September 1917 – March 1918 |
| Reclassified | Destroyer Tender No. 10, 1 March 1918 |
| Reclassified | AD-10, 17 July 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 3 November 1924 |
| Stricken | 2 October 1941 |
| United States | |
| In service | September 1943[5] |
| Renamed | USAHS Larkspur, September 1943[5] |
| Refit | Merrill-Stevens Drydock & Repair Co., Jacksonville, Florida, September 1943 – August 1944[5] |
| Renamed | USAT Bridgeport, January 1946[6] |
| Refit | Todd Shipyard, Hoboken, New Jersey, January 1946[6] |
| Out of service | 16 April 1947[7] |
| Fate | Scrapped 1948[3] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Köln class |
| Tonnage | 7,524 tons[1] |
| Length | 136.36 m (447 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Beam | 16.46 m (54 ft)[1] |
| Propulsion | 2 quadruple expansion steam engines, 3,600 hp (2,700 kW), twin screws[1] |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)[1] |
| Capacity | 60 cabin-class passengers, 1,660 steerage passengers[1] |
| Crew | 94–120[1] |
| Differences as USS Bridgeport:[3] | |
| Displacement | 8,600 tons |
| Length | 447 ft 7.5 in (136.436 m)[3] |
| Beam | 54 ft 4 in (16.56 m)[3] |
| Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m)[3] |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23 km/h; 14 mph)[3] |
| Complement | 786 |
| Armament |
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| Differences as USAHS Larkspur:[5] | |
| Tonnage | 7,995 tons |
| Length | 447 ft 0 in (136.25 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m) |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Range | 9,300 nmi (17,200 km; 10,700 mi) |
| Capacity | 594 patients |
| Armament | None |
| Differences as USAT Bridgeport:[6] | |
| Draft | 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m) |
| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) |
| Capacity | 352 adults, 182 children |
USS Bridgeport (AD-10/ID-3009) was a destroyer tender in the United States Navy during World War I and the years after. She was a twin-screw, steel-hulled passenger and cargo steamship built in 1901 at Vegesack, Germany as SS Breslau of the North German Lloyd line. Breslau was one of the seven ships of the Köln class of ships built for the Bremen to Baltimore and Galveston route.
Interned at New Orleans, Louisiana at the outbreak of World War I, Breslau was seized in 1917 by the United States after her entry into the war and commissioned into the Navy as USS Bridgeport. Originally slated to be a repair ship, she was reclassified as a destroyer tender the following year. Bridgeport completed several transatlantic convoy crossings before she was stationed at Brest, France, where she remained in a support role after the end of World War I. After returning to the United States in November 1919, she spent the next five years along the East Coast and in the Caribbean tending destroyers and conducting training missions. She was decommissioned in November 1924 and placed in reserve at the Boston Navy Yard.
After being struck from the Naval Vessel Register in October 1941, and a brief, unsuccessful attempt at merchant service early in World War II, she was transferred to the War Department for use by the United States Army in November 1942. The ship was selected for employment as a Hague Convention hospital ship and renamed USAHS Larkspur. She made three round trips to the United Kingdom before an extended tour of duty in the Mediterranean.
In January 1946, she was converted into transport ship USAT Bridgeport, destined for returning war brides and other military dependents from overseas. She continued in this role until laid up in the Reserve Fleet at Brunswick, Georgia, in 1947. Bridgeport was sold as surplus in February 1948 and broken up for scrap later that year at Mobile, Alabama.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Drechsel (1994), Volume 1, p. 264.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
ImmShipwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d e f g Cressman. "Bridgeport". DANFS.
- ^ "Table 21 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.
- ^ a b c d Charles (1947), p. 342.
- ^ a b c Charles (1947), p. 11.
- ^ "PMARS Ship Record Detail – Bridgeport". Property Management & Archive Record System. United States Maritime Administration. Retrieved 8 July 2010.