USS Patricia
USS Patricia at Boston, 28 April 1919 | |
| History | |
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| Namesake | Patricia |
| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry |
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| Route | 1899: Hamburg – New York |
| Builder | AG Vulcan Stettin |
| Launched | 20 February 1899 |
| Acquired | by US Government, 26 March 1919 |
| Commissioned | into US Navy, 28 March 1919 |
| Decommissioned | from US navy, 13 September 1919 |
| Maiden voyage | 7–19 May 1899 |
| Reclassified | troop ship, 1914 |
| Refit | 1910 |
| Stricken | from US Navy, 13 September 1919 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | P-class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 560.3 ft (170.8 m) |
| Beam | 62.3 ft (19.0 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) |
| Depth | 37.1 ft (11.3 m) |
| Decks | 4 |
| Installed power | 719 NHP |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| Troops | almost 3,000 |
| Complement | as troop ship, 569 |
| Sensors & processing systems | submarine signalling |
| Notes | sister ships: Pennsylvania, Pretoria, Graf Waldersee |
USS Patricia was a transatlantic liner that was launched in Germany in 1899 and spent most of her career with Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was the last to be built of a class of four HAPAG sister ships that came from shipyards in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899.
In 1919, HAPAG surrendered Patricia to the United States as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies, and she was used to repatriate American Expeditionary Forces troops from Europe.
Later, in 1919, she was transferred from the US government to the UK Shipping Controller. She was scrapped in England in 1921.