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Photo # NH 97668:  USS Von Steuben in New York Harbor, 1919

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIP TYPES --

WORLD WAR I ERA TRANSPORTS --
with Four Smokestacks

Three WWI era U.S. Navy transports had four smokestacks. All were originally German passenger liners completed in 1901-1906 and seized by the U.S. Government in 1917. They were similar in size and appearance, with long, low superstructures and stacks spaced amidships in groups of two, in the German style (British four-stack liners had their funnels evenly spaced). Two had three masts and one had two.

This page features a table (with links to individual ships) of World War I era U.S. Navy transports with four smokestacks, plus one photograph of every ship in this group.


Click each ship name to access that ship's complete Online Library entry.

Click the small photographs to prompt a larger view of the same image, and the words "Picture Data" to access the Picture Data Sheet for that image.


Ships in this group:

ONE SHIP -- FOUR SMOKESTACKS and TWO MASTS:

  • Von Steuben, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kronprinz Wihelm, 1901).
    14,908 Gross Tons; Length: 637.3'; Breadth: 66.3'

     USS Von Steuben during World War I:


    Picture Data


    TWO SHIPS -- FOUR SMOKESTACKS and THREE MASTS:

  • Mount Vernon, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kronprinzessen Cecilie, 1906).
    19,503 Gross Tons; Length: 685.4'; Breadth: 72.2'
  • Agamemnon, USN 1917-1919 (ex-German S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1903).
    19,361 Gross Tons; Length: 684.3'; Breadth: 72.3'

     USS Mount Vernon, February 1919:

    Picture Data

     USS Agamemnon, circa 1919:



    Picture Data


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