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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Finland (ID 4543)

Navy call sign:
George - Boy - Jig - Have

Civilian call sign (1919):
King - Sail - Boy - Cast

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

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
World War I Victory Medal (with Armed Guard and Transport clasps)

Transport:

Laid down in 1902 by William Cramp and Son, Philadelphia, PA

Launched in 1902 for the International Mercantile Marine Co.

Chartered by the Army Transport Service, 3 June 1917

Delivered to the Navy 24 April 1918

Commissioned USS Finland 26 April 1917

Designated ID-4543 in late 1917

Decommissioned 15 November 1919 and delivered to the War Department

Scrapped in 1928.

Specifications:

Displacement: 22,400 t.(fl)

Length: 580

Beam: 60' 2"

Draft: 31' 4"

Speed: 16 kts.

Complement: 414

Armament: Four single 4"/40 gun mounts and two 1-pounders

Propulsion: Coal fired boilers, two 9,300ihp triple-expansion steam engines, two shafts

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
SS Finland
	244k	Undated post card	Tommy Trampp
	94k	Underway in a U.S. harbor, prior to World War I. U.S. Navy photo NH 100549	Naval Historical Center
	128k	Halftone reproduction of a photograph of the S.S. Finland taken prior to World War I. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005 Naval Historical Center photo NH 103300	Robert Hurst
USS Finland (ID 4543)
	181k	Undated post card	Tommy Trampp
	72k	Photographed while serving as a transport during World War I, probably in 1917. This view, which shows her in one of the experimental camouflage schemes used in about 1917, has been heavily retouched. Courtesy of the International Merchantile Marine Company, New York City. U.S. Navy photo NH 53905	Naval Historical Center
	86k	USS Alcedo (SP-166), left center, and USS Wakiva II (SP 160), at right picking up survivors in 1917. This photograph was probably taken on 28 October 1917, when these two converted yachts picked up men who had left the torpedoed transport Finland. The two-stacked ship in the center distance, beyond Alcedo's bow, appears to have four masts and is probably Finland, which survived the incident and later served as USS Finland (ID 4543). USS Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk on 5 November 1917. Courtesy of Mr. W.D. Porter, November 1937. Naval Historical Center photo NH 41745	Robert Hurst
	149k	In drydock at Brest, France, showing damage received when whe was torpedoed on 28 October 1917. U.S. Navy photo NH 53906	Naval Historical Center
	339k	20 December 1918 St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure, France The Princess Matoika [ID 2290], entering the locks, is passing between the transport Finland and the freighter, Artemis [ID 2187] U.S. Army Signal Corps photo	Tommy Trampp
	60k	Finland arriving at a U.S. east coast port with U.S. Troops from Europe, circa 1918-19.	Paul E. Petoky
	297k	c. 1918/1919 Looking aft from the ship's foremast crows' nest Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 103309	Robert Hurst
	189k	King George V, of England (center foreground, with beard) inspecting the armament of the American troop transport Finland, at Liverpool during World War I. Standing by the King's left shoulder is Lieutenant Commander Stanton L.H. Hazard, USN, who commanded the Navy gun crews on board the ship. The gun at left appears to be a 4"/40. U.S. Navy photo 53907	Naval Historical Center
	124k	In port during the World War I era, probably in 1919. Collection of Chief Warrant Officer J.B. Dofflemeyer, 1972. U.S. Navy photo NH 83123	Naval Historical Center
	137k	Photographed in 1919, while employed returning U.S. troops from France to the United States. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2008 Naval Historical Center photo NH 105528	Robert Hurst