USS Nansemond (ID-1395)

The second USS Nansemond (ID-1395), formerly SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Hartland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seized by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service throughout the war before being transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command. Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. She was scrapped in 1924.

USS Nansemond (ID-1395)

The second USS Nansemond (ID-1395), formerly SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line, was built in 1896 by Hartland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and seized by USSB in 1917. Nansemond served in the Army Cargo and Transport Service throughout the war before being transferred to the United States Navy and commissioned 20 January 1919 at Hoboken, N.J., Lt. Comdr. W. MacLeod, USNRF, in command. Upon returning to New York in August she decommissioned on the 25th and returned to United States Shipping Board. She was scrapped in 1924.