USS Pocahontas (ID-3044)
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 Germany
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| Name: | Prinzessin Irene |
| Namesake: | Princess Irene of Hesse |
| Owner: | Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Route: | Bremen–New York City |
| Builder: | AG Vulkan, Stettin |
| Launched: | 19 June 1900 |
| Fate: | Seized by the United States, 1917 |
 United States
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| Name: | USS Pocahontas |
| Namesake: | Pocahontas |
| Acquired: | Seized, 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 25 July 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 November 1919 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner, 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Barbarossa-class ocean liner |
| Displacement: | 18,000 long tons (18,289 t) |
| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft 2 in (18.95 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement: | 610 officers and enlisted |
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USS Pocahontas (SP-3044) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally the SS Prinzess Irene, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by AG Vulcan Stettin of Stettin, Germany, for the North German Lloyd line.
At the beginning of World War I the ship was in New York and was interned by the United States. She was seized when that country entered the conflict in 1917 and converted to a troop transport. As the USS Pocohantas, she carried 24,573 servicemen to Europe, and after the war returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States.
Decommissioned by the U.S. Navy, the United States Shipping Board sold her back to the North German Lloyd line, where she saw mercantile service until being broken up in 1932.
She was launched as Prinzess Irene on 19 June 1900 by Aktiengesellschaft Vulkan, Stettin, Germany for North German Lloyd Lines. On 9 September 1900, she started her maiden voyage to New York City. On 30 October 1900, she began the first of seven trips on the German Empire mail run to the Far East to Yokohama, the route she was built for.
On 30 April 1903, she went on the Genoa – Naples – New York run and stayed mainly on this service together with her sister ship SS König Albert and sometimes other ships of the Barbarossa class. In 1911 under, Captain Frederic von Letten-Peterssen, she was stranded for eighty-three hours on the Fire Island sandbars.
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