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USAT Mount Vernon
ex-USS Mount Vernon (ID 4508)

Mount Vernon served both the U. S. Navy and Army.
Transport: Built in 1906 as Kronprinzesin Cecilie by Actien Gesellschaft, Stettin, Germany; Interned at Bar Harbor, ME, at U.S. entrance into World War I; Seized by the United States Shipping Board 3 February 1917; Acquired by the Navy and converted to a Naval Transport at Boston, MA; Commissioned, USS Mount Vernon (ID 4508), 28 July 1917; Decommissioned, 29 September 1919 and transferred to the War Department for service as an Army transport; Scrapped 13 September 1940 at Boston.

Specifications: Displacement 19,506 t.; Length 706' 4"; Beam 72'; Draft 31' 1"; Speed 24kts; Complement 1,030; Armament four single 5" gun mounts, two 1-pounders; Propulsion steam turbine.

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Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Mount Vernon 103k Kronprinzessin Cecilie entering Bar Harbor, Maine, in August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I. She is wearing the funnel colors of the British White Star Line to deceive British cruisers.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45741		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 81k SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie possibly photographed when she arrived in United States waters in early August 1914, just after the beginning of World War I.
U.S. Navy photo NH 57750		 Naval Historical Center
USS Mount Vernon (ID 4508)
Mount Vernon 57k Mount Vernon post card issued by the Jewish Welfare Board. Sergio Lugo
Mount Vernon 79k U.S. Navy Troop Transports at sea, 10 November 1917. These ships, steaming in convoy from New York City to Brest, France, are (from left to right): Mount Vernon, USS Agamemnon (ID 3004) and USS Von Steuben (ID 3017). The damage to Von Steuben's bow, was the result of a collision with Agamemnon on the previous day.
Courtesy of Paul Silverstone, 1982.
U.S. Navy photo NH 57750		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 76k At anchor in port, December 1917.
Collection of Chief Warrant Officer James B. Dofflemeyer, USN.
U.S. Navy photo NH 98901		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 97k At Brest, France, 5 May 1918.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45742		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 77k At anchor, 25 May 1918.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45743		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 102k At the New York Navy Yard, 8 July 1918, after having been painted in pattern camouflage.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45747		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 124k Steaming towards Brest, France, after she had been torpedoed by German submarine U-82 in the eastern Atlantic on 5 September 1918. An escorting destroyer is laying a smoke screen in the background.
Collection of Lieutenant Commander P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired).
U.S. Navy photo NH 89149		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 91k Entering drydock at Brest, France, on 6 September 1918. She had been torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on the
previous day.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45749		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 147k In drydock at Brest, France, after she was torpedoed by a German submarine on 5 September 1918. USS Prometheus [Repair Ship No.2] is in the right distance, inside the breakwater.
U.S. Navy photo NH 157		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 147k Drydocked at Brest, France, after she was torpedoed by German submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45748		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 115k Hole in the ship's hull made by the German submarine torpedo that hit her on 5 September 1918. Photographed in drydock at Brest, France.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45744		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 148k Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing the ship in dry dock at Brest, France, after she was torpedoed by German Submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 103941		 Robert Hurst
Mount Vernon 144k Panoramic photograph of the ship's officers and crew, posed alongside and on board, 1918.
Donation of James R. Nilo, 1961.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45767		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 78k At Boston, Massachusetts, 7 February 1919.
Photographed by Crosby, 11 Portland St., Boston.
U.S. Navy photo NH 63146		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 78k Coming up Boston Harbor in 1919, surrounded by small craft.
Photographed by Alton Blackinton, Boston.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45750		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 85k Coming up Boston Harbor with elements of the 26th Division on board, in 1919. She is convoyed by craft of the First
Naval District.
Photographed by Alton Blackinton, Boston.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45751		 Naval Historical Center
USAT Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon 113k Mount Vernon moored outboard of the Navy hospital ship Comfort, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 January 1920. Note the drydock in the foreground.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45744		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 80k Mount Vernon at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 January 1920.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45745		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 56k Mount Vernon at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter tied up to her port side, circa
January 1920.
U.S. Navy photo NH 45746		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 99k Mount Vernon maneuvering in the channel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, January 1920.
Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1932.
U.S. Navy photo NH 63108		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 124k Mount Vernon moored outboard of the Navy hospital ship Comfort, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1920.
Photograph from the William H. Topley Collection; courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1970.
U.S. Navy photo NH 71246		 Naval Historical Center
Mount Vernon 146k c. September 1920
At Mare Island Naval Shipyard California		 Joe Radigan
Mount Vernon 140k Nine of Submarine Division 8's ten "O" type submarines, Commanded by Commander Guy E. Davis at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 August 1921. Submarines in the front row are (from left to right): O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67),
O-9 (SS-70) and O-1 (SS-62). Those in the second row are (from left to right): O-7 (SS-68), unidentified (either O-2 or O-8), O-5 (SS-66), O-10 (SS-71) and O-4 (SS-65). Large four-stacked ship in the left center distance is the Mount Vernon.
Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston.
U.S. Navy photo NH 71246		 Naval Historical Center
Agamemnon 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; Mount Vernon; USAT America, ex-USS America (ID 3006) and USAT George Washington, ex-USS George Washington (ID 3018)		 Joe Radigan
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