Chart: "The Original U.S. Troop Transports". August 1919.
Entry/Object ID
2011.002.0007
Description
Black-and-white photo of chart: "The Original U.S. Troop Transports". August 1919. Low-resolution digital file. Reference print on file.
Many of these ships operated to and from the Port of Embarkation and Debarkation at Hoboken, N.J., where the U.S. Army Transport Services in World War I was based. See notes for list of vessels.
Description of photo as found at U.S. Navy Historical Center website: Photo #: NH 82951 Chart compiled 16 August 1919, showing the number of trans-Atlantic "turn arounds" and their average duration for thirty seven U.S. Navy troop transports employed during and immediately after World War I.
Collection of the USS Pocahontas Reunion Association, 1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Stated on this chart (or graph): Compiled by Statistical Dept., August 16, 1919. (did not state the service, whether Army or Navy.)
Acquisition
Accession
2011.002
Source or Donor
Staff / Collected by
Acquisition Method
Collected by Staff
Credit Line
Museum Collections.
Made/Created
Date made
1917 - 1919
Notes
Date: 1917-1919
General Notes
Note
Notes: The ships are as numbered and listed. Order is from lowest average number of days in turn-arounds to highest. The chart also has the number of turn-arounds, but legibility is an issue.
1. Siboney
2. Orizaba
3. Calameres
4. Leviathan
5. Mongolia
6. Pastores
7. Princess Matoika
8. Agamemnon
9. Martha Washington
10. Manchuria
11. Matsonia
12. George Washington
13. Mallory
14. Kroonland
15. Finland
16. Maui
17. Von Steuben
18. Northern Pacific
19. Antigonne
20. President Grant
21. Madawska
22. Plattsburg
23. Otsego
24. Mount Vernon
25. Susquehanna
26. Konigen Der Nederlanden
27. Louisville
28. America
29. Mercury
30. Dekalb
31. Harrisburg
32. Aeolus
33. Pocahonta
34. Sierra
35. Huron
36. Powhatan
37. Henderson
Original or Copy: Digital copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2011-04-07
