Name USS Nansemond Acquired 1917 Decommissioned 25 August 1919 Construction started 1896 Length 171 m | Laid down 1896 Commissioned 20 January 1919 Fate Scrapped, 1924 Launched 10 September 1896 Builder Belfast | |
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The second USS Nansemond (ID-1395), formerly SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Hartland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seized by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service throughout the war before being transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to NOTS, Nansemond departed New York on 4 February laden with Army supplies. She arrived St. Nazaire on 16 February, discharged her cargo, and sailed on 26 February for home carrying returning troops of the AEF, arriving Newport News on 11 March 1919. During the next four months Nansemond continued in the Transport Service returning troops and convalescents of the AEF, making one turnabout run in thirty-two days.
Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. She was scrapped in 1924.