&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Powhatan_(ID-3013).jpg) USS Powhatan (ID-3013) docked at New York City.
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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | Hamburg |
| Namesake | Hamburg |
| Owner | Hamburg America Line |
| Port of registry | Hamburg |
| Builder | AG Vulcan, Stettin |
| Yard number | 243 |
| Launched | 25 November 1899 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Interned by the US, 1914; seized, 1917 |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Hamburg (ID-3013) |
| Namesake | Powhatan, father of Pocahontas |
| Acquired | 6 April 1917 |
| Commissioned | 16 August 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 2 September 1919 |
| Renamed | USS Powhatan (ID-3013), 5 September 1917 |
| Fate | Sold into merchant service; sold for scrap 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 10,531 GRT, 6,420 NRT |
| Length | 544 ft 11.5 in (166.103 m) overall |
| Beam | 60 ft 2 in (18.34 m) |
| Draft | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Depth | 34.7 ft (10.6 m) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Installed power | 1,016 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h) |
| Complement | 533 |
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USS Powhatan (ID–3013) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally Hamburg, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by AG Vulkan of Stettin, Germany, for the Hamburg America Line. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States.
She was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September, 1914.
When the US entered World War I in April 1917, she was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS Hamburg (ID-3013), the ship was renamed Powhatan on 5 September 1917. During World War I, she carried 15,274 troops to France and after the war she returned 11,803 servicemen to the United States.
After decommissioning by the US Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board, and chartered for mercantile service until broken up in 1928.