U.S.S. Nansemond Postcard

U.S.S. Nansemond Postcard

U.S.S. Nansemond Postcard

World War I, 1914-1918

A postcard showing United States Ship (USS) Nansemond (ID-1395), most likely around March 1919. Originally called Steamship (SS) Pennsylvania, this steamship was built by Hartland & Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1896 for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1917, the ship was seized by the United States Shipping Board (USSB). During World War I, Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service until it was transferred to the U.S. Navy. On January 20, 1919, the steamship was commissioned in Hoboken, New Jersey, under Commander W. MacLeod of the U.S. Navy Reserve (USNR). USS Nansemond was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) and departed from New York on February 4, 1919. Carrying supplies for the U.S. Army, the ship arrived at Saint-Nazaire, France, on February 16 and then departed for Virginia on February 26. Carrying returning soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Nansemond arrived at Newport News on March 11, 1919. In August, the steamship returned to New York to be decommissioned on August 25. USS Nansemond was returned to the USSB and then scrapped in 1924.

Original 5.5 x 3.5 inch sepia postcard, 1919: Private Collection of Luticia "Tish" Gormley Lee.

ca. 1919

Digital reproduction of original 5.5 x 3.5 inch sepia postcard, 1919.

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Hoboken, New Jersey

New York City, New York

Saint-Nazaire, France

Newport News, Virginia

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Inherited by Luticia "Tish" Gormley Lee.

Copyright to this resource is held by Luticia "Tish" Gormley Lee and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Dr. Scot French's "Tools in Digital History Seminar," Fall 2013

Cepero, Laura

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"USS Nansemond." Troopships, Battleships, Subs, Cruisers, Destroyers. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/USS_Nansemond.html.

"U.S.S. NANSEMOND." E W T V E T S [Energize With the Vets]: The Forget Us Not Project. http://www.nansemond.org/.

U.S.S NANSEMOND

"SHIP THAT BROUGHT US HOME."

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