USAT Warren

Last updated

Antonio Jacobsen - U.S. Army Transport Warren, 1900.jpg
USAT Warren
History
US flag 45 stars.svgUnited States
Name
  • Scandia (1889-1899)
  • Warren (1899—1922)
  • Unknown (1922—1924)
Owner
  • Hamburg America Line (1889-1898)
  • United States Army (Quartermaster Department) (1898—1922)
  • Le Seug Giap and Company (1922—1924)
Builder AG Vulcan Stettin
Launched24 August 1889 as Scandia
Acquiredby U.S.A.QM: 5 July 1898
Identification
  • Warren (1912)
  • Signal: GWCD
  • Radio call: ATW
FateDestroyed by fire at dock in 1924 and was scrapped.
General characteristics [1]
Tonnage
DisplacementArmy 4,243 tons [4]
Length370.7 ft (113.0 m)registry [2] [3]
Beam44.3 ft (13.5 m) [2] [3]
DraftArmy 26.5 ft (8.1 m) [4]
Depth26.5 ft (8.1 m) [2] [3]
PropulsionTriple expansion steam engine [2]
Speed
  • 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) mean trials
  • Army 11 knots
Complement148 [3]
NotesMajor overhaul fiscal year 1916.

USAT Warren was the former Hamburg America Line liner Scandia, laid down as the Scandiinavia at AG Vulcan Stettin, launched on 24th Aug 1889. The liner was purchased by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department 5 July 1898. In March 1899 Scandia was renamed Warren for Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren. Serving the Army Transport Service as United States Army Transport (USAT) Warren the ship was assigned to the Philippine Inter-Island Service based in Manila as one of the interisland transports. [note 1] Along with routine voyages transporting troops and supplies among the islands the ship made routine trips to China with the Chinese port of Chingwangtao a routine part of service. [4] [5] Warren underwent major overhaul and was "practically reconstructed" during fiscal year 1916 (1 July 1915—30 June 1916) including boiler replacement. [5]

Contents

In 1912 Warren's signal was GWCD with radio call letters ATW. [6] [7]

Scandia

On 28 August 1892 the Scandia left Hamburg with a crew of 77 and 1009 passengers that included 981 steerage and 28 in cabins. The ship arrived in New York on 10 September 1892 with reports that thirty-two had died at sea. There were seven sick passengers that were removed and taken to Swinburne Island where two of those died. The ship was among ten that were quarantined during the 5th Cholera outbreak [8] that included the SS Moravia [9] SS Wyoming, [10] SS Normannia (2), [11] SS Rugia (1), [12] and the SS Stubbenhuk [13]

USAT Warren photo, probably after 1916 major overhaul. USAT Warren National Archives photo.png
USAT Warren photo, probably after 1916 major overhaul.

USAT Warren

Service history

On 17 July 1899 troops from Colorado boarded the transport in Manila for return to the United States as a typhoon was building in the South China Sea forcing overnight suspension of boarding. On the 18th boarding was completed and the ship sailed, and with a period taking shelter in the lee of Formosa, reached Nagasaki 25 July 1899. After coaling the ship sailed on 27 July reaching Yokohama on 30 July and departing on 2 August to reach San Francisco on 16 August. The ship docked the next day after clearing quarantine. [14]

On 30 December 1900 Warren while getting underway at Manila for a voyage to the United States ran into the British ship Mogul. Warren was found to be at fault with the first assistant engineer, in charge, turning control over to the second assistant engineer who did not follow engine orders. Both engineers were dismissed from the transport service. Claims were disputed in particulars but referred to Congress for final payment. [15]

In the summer of 1902 the ship transported Dr. Sheldon Jackson from Seattle to Nome in connection with his work with introducing reindeer into Alaska. [16] Forty-three Filipino political prisoners had been deported to Guam by General Arthur MacArthur Jr. for their loyalty to the Philippine Revolution during the Philippine–American War. On 21 September 1902 Warren embarked most of the political prisoners exiled to Guam for return to the Philippines. [17]

Warren, on the way from Manila to San Francisco, entered Honolulu on 10 July 1905 with a missing propeller blade. Honolulu was the normal coaling stop and the ship had entered the port four years earlier with two missing blades. In that case the ship had left Honolulu for Manila and returned after several days for repairs. Those were done by piling coal and pig iron on the forward decks and removing heavy material from aft so that the stern was raised out of the water enough for the repairs. The same was planned in this case, though the ship might be able to make San Francisco at reduced speed without the repair. [18] [note 2]

During August 1914 the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands dealt with stabilizing the market for staple goods in a crisis related to shipping at the start of war with Germany. With regard to rice the government obtained the cooperation of the Army command in using Warren to transport rice from Indo-China for government sale to dealers. [19]

The general commanding U.S. Army forces in the Philippines was directed on 3 August 1918 to send the 27th and 31st Infantry Regiments, a field hospital, ambulance company and a telegraph company to Vladivostok with Warren, Crook and Merritt designated as transports. Elements of the 27th Infantry Regiment were embarked aboard Warren sailing 7 August 1918 arriving 15 August. Other trips involved transport of ambulance and field hospital elements in September. [20] In 1920 Warren made voyages to Vladivostok to evacuate elements of the Czech Legion disembarking them at Trieste, Italy. [4]

On 28 December 1922, at Manila, the ship was sold to the Le Seug Giap and Company. [4] [21]

Sinking

Former U.S. transport Warren sinks for no reason at all. USAT Warren Sinks in Shanghai.jpg
Former U.S. transport Warren sinks for no reason at all.

In May 1924 Warren [note 3] sank for unknown reasons on the Huangpu River in the harbor of Shanghai, next to the pier, and was finally scrapped in 1929. [4] [22]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Others assigned to this service as of 1916 were the transports Liscum and Merritt.
  2. ↑ A photo with the referenced article shows the ship during the earlier repair with the forward decks piled with coal.
  3. ↑ Reference is unclear if the name Warren was used after sale. It refers to "former U.S. transport Warren" without designating the ship's name at the time.

Related Research Articles

USS <i>Badger</i> (1889) Auxiliary cruiser of the US Navy

USS Badger was an auxiliary cruiser of the United States Navy, the first U.S. Navy ship named after the burrowing mammal. Badger was sold to the War Department in April 1900 to serve as the U.S. Army Transport Lawton.

USAT <i>Buford</i>

USAT Buford was a combination cargo/passenger ship, originally launched in 1890 as the SS Mississippi. She was purchased by the US Army in 1898 for transport duty in the Spanish–American War. In 1919, she was briefly transferred to the US Navy, commissioned as the USS Buford, to repatriate troops home after World War I, and then later that year returned to the Army.

USAT <i>Meigs</i> United States Army transport ship sunk in Darwin Harbour

The USAT Meigs was a United States Army transport ship that was built in 1921 and sunk in Darwin Harbour in the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on 19 February 1942.

USS <i>General J. H. McRae</i>

USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). She was named for US Army Major General James H. McRae.

USAT <i>Thomas</i> Transport ship in service of the U.S. Army from 1898 to 1927

USAT Thomas was a United States Army transport ship purchased on 26 July 1898 for Spanish–American War service. Thomas served with the Army Transport Service (ATS) until retired in 1929.

SS <i>Arizona</i> Record breaking British passenger liner, later a US military ship

Arizona was a record breaking British passenger liner that was the first of the Guion Line's Atlantic Greyhounds on the Liverpool-Queenstown-New York route. One nautical historian called Arizona "a souped up transatlantic hot rod." Entering service in 1879, she was the prototype for Atlantic express liners until the Inman Line introduced its twin screw City of New York in 1889. The Arizona type liner is generally considered as unsuccessful because too much was sacrificed for speed. Laid up in 1894 when Guion stopped sailings, Arizona was sold four years later and briefly employed in the Pacific until she was acquired by the US Government for service in the Spanish–American War. As the US Navy's Hancock she continued trooping through World War I, and was scrapped in 1926.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Army Transport Service</span> Military unit

The United States Army Transport Service (ATS) was established as a sea-going transport service that was independent of the Navy Department. ATS operated army transport ships for both troop transport and cargo service between United States ports and overseas posts. This service is often confused with the Army Transportation Service, created in France in 1917 to manage American Expeditionary Forces transport. ATS was a branch of the Quartermaster Corps responsible for land and water transport, becoming a separate United States Army Transportation Corps on July 31, 1942.

SS <i>Great Northern</i> Passenger ship built in 1914

Great Northern was a passenger ship built at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company, itself a joint venture of the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. Great Northern, along with sister ship Northern Pacific, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the northern transcontinental rail lines via the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915.

USS <i>General O. H. Ernst</i> General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II

USS General O. H. Ernst (AP-133) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Oswald Herbert Ernst. She was decommissioned in 1946 and transferred to the Army Transport Service as USAT General O. H. Ernst. She was sold privately in 1964 and renamed SS Calmar, and was scrapped in 1980.

USS <i>General Omar Bundy</i>

USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II.

USS <i>General C. G. Morton</i>

USS General C. G. Morton (AP-138) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Gould Morton. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. G. Morton in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. G. Morton (T-AP-138). She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Green Wave, before being scrapped in 1980.

USS <i>Matsonia</i>

USS Matsonia (ID-1589) was a troopship used by the United States Navy during World War I. Before and after her Navy service she was ocean liner SS Matsonia for the Matson Navigation Company. The liner was sold in 1937 to the Alaska Packers Association and renamed SS Etolin. Shortly before World War II, the ship was chartered by the United States Army as USAT Etolin. Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in 1946, Etolin was placed in the James River Reserve Fleet and ultimately scrapped in 1957.

SS <i>Northern Pacific</i> United States passenger ship

SS Northern Pacific was built as a passenger ship at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company. Northern Pacific, along with sister ship Great Northern, were built to provide a passenger and freight link by sea between the Great Northern Railway Lines and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway terminal at Astoria, Oregon and San Francisco beginning in spring of 1915. The ship was acquired on 17 September 1917 for use as a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I, commissioned USS Northern Pacific and later, after transfer to the United States Army, as the Army transport USAT Northern Pacific. She was destroyed by fire in 1922.

SS <i>Montanan</i> Cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company

SS Montanan was a cargo ship built in 1912 for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. During World War I service for the United States Army Transport Service, she was known as USAT Montanan. Montanan was built by the Maryland Steel Company as one of eight sister ships for the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, and was employed in inter-coastal service via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal after it opened.

SS <i>Edenton</i>

SS Edenton was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board as part of the Board's World War I emergency shipbuilding program.

USAT <i>McClellan</i>

USAT McClellan was a United States Army transport ship that saw service during the Spanish–American War and World War I. She also participated in the occupation of Veracruz in 1914.

USC&GS <i>Romblon</i>

USC&GS Romblon was a steamer, owned by the Philippine Insular Government, that served exclusively in the Philippines. The ship was purchased by the Philippine Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation to support both government logistical and administrative travel needs as well as the usual functions of a coast guard vessel. The vessel was transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey serving as a survey ship from 1905 to 1932. Romblon and Marinduque were sister ships, both built in Japan.

USC&GSS <i>Pathfinder</i>

The first USC&GSS Pathfinder, also noted in some NOAA histories as "old Pathfinder", was a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship in service from 1899 to 1941, when she was beached in sinking condition on January 30, 1942, after 40 years service in the Philippines.

SS <i>Barbara Olson</i> Cargo ship built in Wisconsin in 1918

SS Barbara Olson was a cargo ship built in Wisconsin in 1918 as the SS Corrales. Barbara Olson was able to escape an attack off the coast of California in the early days of World War II. The Barbara Olson was built under a United States Shipping Board (USSB) contract in 1918 as the SS Corrales and renamed in 1940. On July 25, 1942, she was chartered by the US Army to transport supplies to the Territory of Hawaii as the USAT Barbara Olson for World War II. On January 14, 1946, her Army service ended. In 1964 she was run aground four miles (6.4 km) north of Pimentel, Peru and declared a total loss.

References

  1. ↑ "Ship Descriptions - S". TheShipsList.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lloyds (1896). "Lloyd's Register (1896-1897)". Lloyd's Register. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Fiftieth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Year ended June 30, 1918 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation. 1918. p. 496. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Clay, Steven E. (2011). U. S. Army Order Of Battle 1919-1941 (PDF). Volume 4. The Services: Quartermaster, Medical, Military Police, Signal Corps, Chemical Warfare, And Miscellaneous Organizations, 1919-41. Vol. 4. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 2186. ISBN   9780984190140. LCCN   2010022326 . Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  5. 1 2 Army Appropriation Bill, 1918. House: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1917. p. 368. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  6. ↑ Forty-Fourth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, Year ended June 30, 1912 (Code List of the Quartermaster's Department) (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Navigation. 1912. p. 96 (Code List of the Quartermaster's Department). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Wireless Telegraph Stations of the World, Including Shore Stations, Merchant Vessels, Revenue Cutters, and Vessels, Revenue Cutters, and Vessels of the United States Navy". U.S. Government Printing Office. July 16, 1912 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ "Scandia the Worse Plague Ship of All". The Evening World. September 10, 1892. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ SS Moravia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
  10. ↑ SS Wyoning- Retrieved 2019-07-21
  11. ↑ SS Normannia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
  12. ↑ SS Rugia- Retrieved 2019-07-21
  13. ↑ SS Stubbenhuk-Retrieved 2019-07-21
  14. ↑ Hunt, Geoffrey (2006). Colorado's Volunteer Infantry in the Philippine Wars, 1898-1899 (1st Colorado on the Warren). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 207–208. ISBN   0826337007. LCCN   2006002332 . Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  15. ↑ Gallatly, Hankey & Co. No. 289, House of Representatives, 58th Congress, 2d Session (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. January 12, 1904. pp. 1–20. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  16. ↑ Jackson, Sheldon (July 16, 1903). Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 25, 38, 143. Retrieved 7 April 2021– via Internet Archive.
  17. ↑ O'Connor, Lopaka (May 13, 2020). ""America's St. Helena": Filipino Exiles and U.S. Empire on Guam, 1901–03". Center for the Humanities News. St. Louis: Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  18. ↑ "Arrival of Transport Warren" (PDF). The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Vol. 52, no. 7152. Honolulu, Hawaii: The Commercial Journal Advertiser. July 11, 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  19. ↑ Report of The Philippine Commission. Annual Reports, War Department Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1915 (Report). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 56. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  20. ↑ House, John M. (October 6, 1986). Wolfhounds and Polar Bears in Siberia: America's Military Intervention, 1918—1820 (PDF) (Master of Arts). University of Kansas, Department of History. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  21. ↑ "(Advertisement) Ports for Sale, Surplus Property (USAT Warren)". Shipping. Vol. 7, no. 5. New York, N.Y.: Shipping Publishing Company. November 10, 1920. p. 63. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  22. ↑ Newspaper article shown pictured.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.