Name USS F. J. Luckenbach Completed 28 November 1917 Commissioned 9 January 1918 Launched 15 September 1917 Builder Fore River Shipyard | Namesake Previous name retained Acquired 9 January 1918 Decommissioned 18 August 1919 Length 143 m | |
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USS F. J. Luckenbach (ID-2160) was a cargo ship and troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.
SS F. J. Luckenbach was built as a commercial cargo ship at Quincy, Massachusetts, by Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation for Luckenbach Steamship Company of New York City. Launched on 15 September 1917, she was delivered to Luckenbach on 28 November 1917. She then came under the control of the United States Shipping Board. The Shipping Board transferred her to the U.S. Navy for World War I service on 9 January 1918. Assigned Identification Number (Id. No.) 2160, she was commissioned the same day as USS F. J. Luckenbach with Lieutenant Commander W. McLean, USNRF, in command.
Outfitted as an animal transport, F. J. Luckenbach carried horses, mules, and general United States Army cargo on five voyages to France from New York City between 12 February 1918 and 21 February 1919. She was then converted for postwar troop transport duty, and made two voyages to return troops of the American Expeditionary Force from Europe to the United States between April 1919 and July 1919.
Decommissioned on 18 August 1919, F. J. Luckenbach was transferred to the Shipping Board the same day for return to her owner.
Once again SS F. J. Luckenbach, she resumed commercial service as a cargo ship. She was scrapped in 1951.
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