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NavSource Online: Civilian Vessel Photo Archive

USAT Edmund B. Alexander
ex-USAT America
ex-USS America (ID 3006)
ex-USS Amerika

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)

Transport: Laid down in 1904 as Amerika by Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland; Launched 20 April 1905; Seized by United States Shipping Board (USSB) 25 July 1917; Commissioned, USS Amerika (ID 3006), 6 August 1917, at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.; Renamed America 1 September 1917; Decommissioned 26 September 1919 at Hoboken, NJ and simultaneously commissioned into the U.S. Army Transportation Service as USAT America; Returned to the USSB in 1920; Refurbished for passenger service and placed back in commercial service 22 June 1921; Laid up at Point Patience, MD in 1931; Placed in service as USAT Edmund B. Alexander in October 1940 by the U.S. Army Transportation Service; Placed in reserve 28 January 1951 at Hawkin's Point, MD; Sold for scrap 16 January 1967 to the Bethlehem Steel Co. of Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 41,500 t.; Length 687'; Beam 75' 5"; Draft 39' 5"; Speed 17.5 kts.(max.); Complement 994; Armament four 6" gun mount, two 1-pounders, two .30 cal. Colt machine guns, one .30 cal. Lewis machine gun, nine depth charges; Propulsion steam turbines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Photo	Size	Image Description	Source
SS Amerika
	151k	Photographed prior to World War I. U.S. Navy photo NH 57603	Naval Historical Center
USS America (ID 3006)
	70k	Photographed circa 1917, possibly while being prepared for U.S. Navy service. U.S. Navy photo NH 94203	Naval Historical Center
	133k	At Boston, Massachusetts, 1917, with her topsides crowded with men. USN Derrick Barge 13 is at left, and USN Coal Barge 52 is alongside America in the right center. Panoramic photograph by the George Photo Company, Boston. Donation of Eleanor M. Anderson, 1975. U.S. Navy photo NH 98237	Naval Historical Center
	164k	The ex-German passenger vessel Amerika, at the Boston Navy Yard, 14 August 1917 shortly after seizure by USSB undergoing conversion for Naval service. U.S. Navy photo from DANFS	Joe Radigan, MACM, USN, Ret.
	161k	View on deck, taken at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 17 October 1917, after completion of conversion to a troopship. View looks aft from her midships superstructure, with cargo-handling booms and winches in the foreground. U.S. Navy photo NH 57601	Naval Historical Center
	120k	Sunk at Hoboken, New Jersey, circa October-November 1918. America had accidently sunk at her dock on 15 October 1918. Raised on 21 November, she was repaired and returned to transport service in February 1919. Donation of John G. Krieger, 1967. U.S. Navy photo NH 57604	Naval Historical Center
	129k	Under salvage at Hoboken, New Jersey, circa October-November 1918. She accidently sank at her pier on 15 October 1918. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN. Naval Historical Center photo NH 103244	Robert Hurst
	149k	Under salvage at Hoboken, New Jersey, circa October-November 1918. She accidently sank at her pier on 15 October 1918. This photograph provides a close-up view of the ship's port side, amidships, showing men on her deck, signal flags drying and laundry hanging from railings, smokestack stays and other locations. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN. Naval Historical Center photo NH 103245	Robert Hurst
	116k	USS Don Juan de Austria, in the foreground. Leading America up Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on 5 April 1919. U.S. Navy photo NH 54586	Naval Historical Center
	87k	Steaming up Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, upon arrival from France with troops of the 26th Division on board, 5 April 1919. U.S. Navy photo NH 57602	Naval Historical Center
	123k	Photographed circa 1919. U.S. Navy photo NH 78268	Naval Historical Center
	103k	Underway in 1919. Courtesy of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2005. Naval Historical Center photo NH 102869	Robert Hurst
USAT America
	149k	c. 1939 In the Patuxent River off Solomons Island, MD, four ex-German liners are laid up from left to right USAT Monticello, ex-USS Agamemnon (ID 3004; USAT Mount Vernon, ex-USS Mount Vernon (ID 4508); America and USAT George Washington, ex-USS George Washington (ID 3018)	Joe Radigan
USAT Edmund B. Alexander
	146k	In port, following World War II. Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2007. Naval Historical Center photo NH 104966	Robert Hurst
	123k	Edmund B. Alexander underway near Boston Light, Massachusetts, 6 January 1945. Photographed from a Squadron ZP-11 blimp. National Archives photo 80-G-301393	Naval Historical Center
	119k	In port, circa 1945-1946. Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2007. Naval Historical Center photo NH 104968	Robert Hurst