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Susquehanna (ID 3016)

Transport: Built in 1899 as Rhein by Blohm and Voss, Hamburg, Germany; Acquired by the Navy in September 1917; Commissioned USS Susquehanna
(ID 3016), 5 September 1917 at Norfolk, VA; Decommissioned 27 August 1919 and transferred to the United States Shipping Board. Reconverted for commercial use, she operated briefly in 1920-1922 but was then laid up. She was scrapped in 1928.

Specifications: Displacement 17,857 t.; Length 520'; Beam 58' 1"; Draft 28'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 514; Armament four 6", two 1-pounders and two machine guns.

Size	Image Description	Source
117k	Underway, circa 1917-1919. U.S. Navy Photo NH 43544	Naval Historical Center
87k	Underway, circa 1919, with her decks crowded with troops returning home from France. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972. U.S. Navy Photo NH 58840	Naval Historical Center
104k	In port, 1919. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006. Naval Hitorical Center photo NH 104120	Robert Hurst

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