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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; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); 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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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
Mount Vernon 57k Mount Vernon post card issued by the Jewish Welfare Board, date unknown. 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): USS Mount Vernon (ID 4508), USS Agamemnon (ID 3004) and USS Von Steuben (ID 3017). Note the damage to Von Steuben's bow, 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
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Mount Vernon 97k At Brest, France, 5 May 1918.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 45742
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Mount Vernon 77k At anchor, 25 May 1918.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 45743
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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
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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
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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
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Mount Vernon 147k In drydock at Brest, France, after she was torpedoed by a German submarine on 5 September 1918. USS Prometheus [Repair Ship #2] is in the right distance, inside the breakwater.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 157
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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
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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
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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
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Mount Vernon 78k At Boston, Massachusetts, 7 February 1919.
Photographed by Crosby, 11 Portland St., Boston.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 63146
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Mount Vernon 78k Coming up Boston Harbor in 1919, surrounded by small craft.
Photographed by Alton Blackinton, Boston.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 45750
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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
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Mount Vernon 113k U.S. Army Transport 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
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Mount Vernon 80k U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 2 January 1920.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 45745
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Mount Vernon 56k U.S. Army Transport 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
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Mount Vernon 99k U.S. Army Transport 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
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Mount Vernon 124k U.S. Army Transport 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

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