&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Pocahontas_(SP-3044).jpg) USS Pocahontas underway in 1919
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| History | |
|---|---|
 German Empire | |
| Name | Prinzessin Irene |
| Namesake | Princess Irene of Hesse |
| Owner | Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Route | Bremen–New York City |
| Builder | AG Vulkan, Stettin |
| Launched | 19 June 1900 |
| Fate | Seized by the United States, 1917 |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Pocahontas |
| Namesake | Pocahontas |
| Acquired | Seized, 1917 |
| Commissioned | 25 July 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 7 November 1919 |
| Fate | Returned to owner, 1919; sold for scrap, 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
| Displacement | 18,000 long tons (18,289 t) |
| Length | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft 2 in (18.95 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 610 officers and enlisted |
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USS Pocahontas (SP-3044) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally SS Prinzess Irene, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by AG Vulcan Stettin of Stettin, Germany, for the North German Lloyd line.[1]
At the beginning of World War I the ship was in New York and was interned by the United States. She was seized when that country entered the conflict in 1917 and converted to a troop transport. As USS Pocahontas, she carried 24,573 servicemen to Europe, and after the war returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States.
Decommissioned by the U.S. Navy, the United States Shipping Board sold her back to the North German Lloyd line, where she saw mercantile service until being scrapped in 1932.
- ^ Kludas, Arnold. Great Passenger Ships of the World Vol 1 1858–1912. Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 18. ISBN 0-85059-174-0.