USS Amphion

Last updated January 26, 2022

USS Amphion may refer to:

USS Amphion (1899), launched in 1899 as a German passenger liner (Köln) and served as a transport during World War I. She was sold for scrap in 1924.
USS Amphion (AR-13), was commissioned in 1946, she decommissioned in 1971 and was sold to Iran as Chah Bahar.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.

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The first USS Amphion was a former German passenger liner SS Köln for Norddeutscher Lloyd from 1899–1917. Köln had been interned in Boston on the outbreak of war in Europe and confiscated in April 1917 when the United States entered the war. The ship was under the control of the United States Shipping Board (USSB) that allocated commercial type ships to military or civilian use during the war. Köln was renamed Amphion and operated by USSB for the Army as United States Army Chartered Transport (U.S.A.C.T.) Amphion as an animal transport taking mules, horses and general cargo to forces in Europe. At the end of the war the USSB allocated the ship to the Navy, which used the ship from April to September 1919 as a troop transport for returning the United States Expeditionary Force from Europe.

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