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Specifications: Displacement 9,332 t.; Length 489.5''; Beam 58'; Draft 30'; Speed 13 kts.; Complement 261; Armament three 6-pounders.
Ancon's brief Navy career lasted just four months. Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet 's Cruiser and Transport Force, she made two round-trip voyages from the United States to France to bring American servicemen back home. Following her second voyage, she was decommissioned at New York City on 25 July 1919 and was returned to the War Department.
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