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    USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919

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    USS Powhatan, a 18,026-ton troop transport, was originally the German passenger steamer Hamburg, which had been built in 1899 at Stettin, Germany. Interned at New York when World War I began in August 1914, she was seized when the United States joined the conflict. The U.S. Navy placed her in commission as USS Hamburg in August 1917 and changed her name to Powhatan the next month. Her active service began in November, when she made the first of twelve trans-Atlantic troop-carrying voyages. Up to December 1918, she transported more than fifteen-thousand service personnel to the war zone. Powhatan then reversed the process, and brought home nearly twelve-thousand. She was decommissioned in September 1919 and turned over to the Army Transportation Service. She later had merchant service under the names Hudson and President Fillmore.
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