USS Lenape, a 5179 gross ton troop transport, was built at Newport News, Virginia, in 1912 as the commercial passenger-cargo ship of the same name. She was employed as a transport by the U.S. Army during the first year of World War I. The Navy took the ship over in April 1918 and placed her commission later in that month. During May-September 1918 USS Lenape made three round-trip voyages to France, carrying U.S. service personnel to the European war zone. She was returned the the Army in late October 1918 and resumed merchant service after the end of hostilities. Beached in Delaware Bay after a fire on 18 November 1925, S.S. Lenape was scrapped at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1926.
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Page made 13 March 2004
New image added 5 January 2009