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Virginian (ID 3920)

Call sign (1919):
Nan - Able - Xray - George

Civilian call sign (1919):
King - Sail - Jig - Fox

Virginian served both the U. S. Navy and U.S. Army

Transport:

The second Virginian was built in 1903 as Maine by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, MD

Renamed Virginian in 1908

Commissioned USS Virginian (ID 3920), 14 June 1918 at Hoboken, NJ

Decommissioned 19 August 1919 at Hampton Roads, VA and returned to her owners

Sold for scrap in April 1948.

Specifications:

Displacement 19,120 t.

Length 506'

Beam 58' 3"

Draft 29'

Speed 12 kts.

Complement 78

Troop capacity 4,771

Armament: One 5"/40 and one 3"/50 mount

Propulsion: Two double ended and two single ended boilers, two 2,500ihp vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
SS Virginian
	108k	In San Francisco Bay, California, prior to World War I Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005 Naval Historical Center photo NH 103284	Robert Hurst
USS Virginian (ID 3920)
	144k	Returning troops home	Tommy Trampp
	204k	In harbor, crowded with U.S. troops returning home from Europe, 1919 Photographed by O.E. Waterman Donation of Mrs. Sheilah R. Taylor, 1975. U.S. Navy Photo NH 83953	Naval Historical Center
	115k	View on board, taken circa 13-25 June 1919, while she was bringing troops home from Europe Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR, (Retired), 2008 Naval History and Heritage Command photos NH 105956 and NH 105957 Photos added 16 August 2019	Robert Hurst
	113k
	113k	Arriving in a U.S. East Coast port at the end of a voyage bringing troops home from France, circa April-August 1919 Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006 Naval Historical Center photo NH 103925
	169k	Arriving at New York at the end of a voyage bringing troops home from France, circa April-August 1919. The original image was an oversized print Photographed by E. Muller Jr., New York. Donation, January 2001. Naval History and Heritage Command photo from Shipscribe.com
	120k	In a European port, 1919 Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008 Naval Historical Center photo NH 106040
SS Virginian
	95k	c. 1920's Photo from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst
	663k	During World War II Virginian was used by the Army as an animal transport, loading mules at New Orleans for the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations Allen Knight Maritime Museum photo from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" by David H. Grover	Robert Hurst