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USAT Warren

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal
Transport
  • Laid down, date unknown, as SS Scandia by A. G. Vulcan Shipbuilding Co. at Stettin, Germany
  • Launched, 24 August 1889
  • Purchased by the Quartermaster Department, 5 July 1898, from the Hamburg-American Line, assigned to the Army Transport Service
  • Commissioned USAT Warren in March 1899 in honor of Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, commanding general of the II and V Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1863-65
  • Assigned to the Philippine Inter-Island Service with homeport at Manila, P.I.
  • Made routine voyages to Chingwangtao to transport troops and supplies to and from Manila
  • Made several voyages in early 1920 to evacuate elements of the Czech Legion from Vladivostok and disembark them at Trieste, Italy
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Sold, 28 December 1922, to Le Seug Giap and Co., Manila P.I.
  • Sunk in May 1924 in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai Harbor
  • Final Disposition, raised and later scrapped in 1929
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,243 t.
    Length 370'7"
    Beam 44'3"
    Draft 26'5"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passenger capacity unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    Warren
    301307207    		 69k
    Namesake
    Warren - Gouverneur Kemble Warren (8 January 1830 – 8 August 1882) was an American civil engineer and United States Army general during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for arranging the last-minute defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg and is often referred to as the "Hero of Little Round Top".
    Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons    		 Tommy Trampp
    Warren
    301307208    		 93k Troops embarking in USAT Warren, circa 1899, location unknown. David Wright
    Warren
    301307203    		 159k Oil on canvas painting by Antonio Jacobsen (1850 - 1921) of USAT Warren, 1900. Inscribed lower right: A. Jacobsen 1900 West Hoboken NJ.
    Courtesy Heritage Auctions    		 Robert Hurst
    Warren 80k USAT Warren underway, date and location unknown.
    US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4., US National Archives RG-92 Records of the Quartermaster General     		US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol.4.
    Warren 104k USAT Warren moored pierside, probably in China, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
    Warren
    301307204    		 138k Stereograph card of USAT Warren coaling at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, circa 1902.
    Library of C9ngress Prints and Photographs Division (942,656) Library of Congress Online Catalog (1,230,331)    		 Robert Hurst
    Warren
    301307205    		 22k Stereoscopic image of USAT Warren docked at Honolulu, Hawaii. Date and photographer unknown.
    Contributed by Gifford M. Mast. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside     		Robert Hurst
    Warren
    301307206    		 220k Newspaper article about the USAT Warren sinking for unknown reasons in Shanghai harbor. Date 1923. Kadel & Herbert. Robert Hurst
    The history for USAT Warren is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol 4
    Army Transportation Service Ship's Masters
    01CAPT. Baker, Charles, A.T.S.January 1919 - October 1919
    02unknownOctober 1919 - 4 March 1921
    03CAPT. Randall, Frank S., A.T.S.4 March 1921 - 21 November 1933
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