SS Graf Waldersee
Graf Waldersee off Dover about 1922 | |
| History | |
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| Name | Graf Waldersee |
| Namesake | Alfred von Waldersee |
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| Operator | |
| Port of registry | |
| Route | 1899: Hamburg – Cherbourg – Plymouth – New York |
| Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Yard number | 131 |
| Launched | 10 December 1898 |
| Completed | 18 March 1899 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy, 28 March 1919 |
| Decommissioned | from US Navy, 25 November 1919 |
| Maiden voyage | 2–15 April 1899 |
| Reclassified | troop ship, 1919 |
| Refit | 1910 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | P-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | as built: 12,830 GRT, 8,157 NRT |
| Displacement | 25,000 tons |
| Length | 561.2 ft (171.1 m) |
| Beam | 62.2 ft (19.0 m) |
| Depth | 37.7 ft (11.5 m) |
| Installed power | 714 NHP |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| Troops | at least 1,526 troops |
| Complement | in US Navy: 553 |
| Crew | in civilian service: 250 |
| Sensors & processing systems | submarine signalling |
| Notes | sister ships: Pennsylvania, Pretoria, Patricia |
SS Graf Waldersee was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1898 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the third of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that were built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.
In 1919 HAPAG surrendered Graf Waldersee to the United States as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies. She became the United States Navy troop ship USS Graf Waldersee (ID-4040) and was used to repatriate American Expeditionary Forces troops from Europe.
At the end of 1919 Graf Waldersee was transferred from the United States Shipping Board to the UK Shipping Controller. She was scrapped in Germany in 1922.