USS Mount Vernon, a 29,650-ton (19,503 gross ton) transport, was built at Stettin, Germany, in 1906 as the trans-Atlantic passenger liner Kronprinzessen Cecilie. Laid up in the United States during the first years of World War I, she was seized when the U.S. entered the conflict in 1917. She was turned over to the Navy, renamed Mount Vernon, and converted at Boston, Massachusetts, for troop carrying service. Initially assigned no registry number, she later received the ID number 4508.
Though placed in commission in late July 1917, shipyard work continued on Mount Vernon for a few more months. She began her first trip to France at the end of October 1917 and thereafter regularly carried American Military personnel to the war zone. On 5 September 1918, while steaming back to the U.S. after completing her ninth eastward-bound trooping voyage, Mount Vernon was torpedoed by the German submarine U-82. Repaired at Brest, France, and at Boston, she returned to service in February 1919, this time as part of the great effort to bring war veterans home. This work was largely completed by the summer of 1919 and USS Mount Vernon was placed out of commission in late September. Transferred to the War Department, she operated as the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon until the early 1920s. The ship was then laid up and remained inactive until scrapped in 1940.
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Page made 13 October 2003
New image added 30 November 2008