USS Wabash (ID-1824)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Seneca and USS Wabash.

The ship as Seneca
History
Name
  • 1900: Wartburg
  • 1905: Tübingen
  • 1917: Seneca
  • 1918: Wabash
Namesake
Owner
Operator1918: United States Navy
Port of registry
BuilderWigham Richardson, Low Walker
Yard number365
Launched11 September 1900
CompletedOctober 1900
Commissioned9 February 1918
Decommissioned21 April 1919
Identification
FateScrapped, 1924
General characteristics
Typecargo ship
Tonnage5,448 GRT, 3,516 NRT
Displacement10,475 tons
Length381.0 ft (116.1 m)
Beam49.9 ft (15.2 m)
Depth26.6 ft (8.1 m)
Decks2
Installed power460 NHP; 2,500 ihp
Propulsion
Speed13.5 knots (25 km/h) maximum; 11.4 knots (21 km/h) cruising
Complementin US Navy: 93
Sensors and
processing systems		by 1911: submarine signalling
Armament
Notessister 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.

  1. ^ Gray 1967, p. 16.
  2. ^ Gray 1967, p. 29.
  3. ^ "Delaware". Tees Built Ships. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 8 September 2024.