USS Zeelandia: Difference between revisions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content added Content deleted
|
|
|||
| Line 89: | Line 89: | ||
|
==Troop ship== |
==Troop ship== |
||
|
[[File:USS-Zeelandia.jpg|thumb|”Zeelandia” in [[dazzle camouflage]] as a [[troopship]]]] |
[[File:USS-Zeelandia.jpg|thumb|”Zeelandia” in [[dazzle camouflage]] as a [[troopship]]]] |
||
|
On 20 March 1917 President [[Woodrow Wilson]] proclaimed the seizure by [[angary]] of Dutch merchant ships in US ports. Three days later the [[United States naval districts#3rd Naval District|Third Naval District]] inspected ”Zeelandia” and recommended her conversion into a troopship. On 3 April 1918 she was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] into the US Navy as USS ”Zeelandia”, with the [[Hull classification symbol|ID number]] ID–2507. [[Commander]] Robert Henderson was her first commander. She was defensively armed with four {{convert|6|in|mm|adj=on}} guns, two [[QF 1-pounder pom-pom|1-pounder gun]]s, and two [[machine gun]]s{{cite web |url= https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/z/zeelandia.html |title=Zeelandia (Id. No. 2507) |work=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|DANFS]] |publisher=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |access-date=21 May 2023}} |
On 20 March 1917 President [[Woodrow Wilson]] proclaimed the seizure by [[angary]] of Dutch merchant ships in US ports. Three days later the [[United States naval districts#3rd Naval District|Third Naval District]] inspected ”Zeelandia” and recommended her conversion into a troopship. On 3 April 1918 she was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] into the US Navy as USS ”Zeelandia”, with the [[Hull classification symbol|ID number]] ID–2507. [[Commander]] Robert Henderson was her first commander. She was defensively armed with four {{convert|6|in|mm|adj=on}} guns, two [[QF 1-pounder pom-pom|1-pounder gun]]s, and two [[machine gun]]s{{cite web |url= https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/z/zeelandia.html |title=Zeelandia (Id. No. 2507) |work=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|DANFS]] |publisher=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |access-date=21 May 2023}} |
||
|
The US Navy assigned ”Zeelandia” to the [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]] Division of the [[Cruiser and Transport Force]]. Between her commissioning and the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918]] she made five [[Transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] round trips between the US and Europe, in which she carried 8,349 passengers, nost of them troops. She claimed to have sighted and engaged several German [[U-boat]]s in that time. However, the only verified engagement was on 31 August 1918, when a U-boat surfaced to try to attack a convoy in which ”Zeelandia” was sailing. The convoy’s zig-zag course, and the strength of its escort, prevented the U-boat from pressing home its attack. |
The US Navy assigned ”Zeelandia” to the [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]] Division of the [[Cruiser and Transport Force]]. Between her commissioning and the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918]] she made five [[Transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] round trips between the US and Europe, in which she carried 8,349 passengers, nost of them troops. She claimed to have sighted and engaged several German [[U-boat]]s in that time. However, the only verified engagement was on 31 August 1918, when a U-boat surfaced to try to attack a convoy in which ”Zeelandia” was sailing. The convoy’s zig-zag course, and the strength of its escort, prevented the U-boat from pressing home its attack. |
||
Latest revision as of 06:47, 31 October 2023
Dutch-owned ocean liner that was a US Navy troopship in 1918 and 1919
KHL poster featuring Zeelandia |
|
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Zeelandia |
| Namesake | Zeeland |
| Owner | Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd |
| Operator |  US Navy (1918–19) |
| Port of registry |  Amsterdam |
| Route | Amsterdam – Buenos Aires |
| Builder | A Stephen & Sons, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 436 |
| Launched | 26 April 1910 |
| Completed | June 1910 |
| Acquired | March 1918 |
| Commissioned | 3 April 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 16 October 1919 |
| Out of service | laid up from February 1935 |
| Identification | |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 7,995 GRT, 4,960 NRT, 7,420 DWT |
| Displacement | 11,500 tons |
| Length | 440.0 ft (134.1 m) |
| Beam | 55.7 ft (17.0 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m) |
| Depth | 34.0 ft (10.4 m) |
| Decks | 2 |
| Installed power | 953 NHP, 5,800 ihp |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Capacity | |
| Complement | in US Navy: 322 |
| Sensors and processing systems |
|
| Armament | |
USS Zeelandia was an ocean liner that was built in Scotland in 1910 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1936. She was the largest ship in the Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd (KHL) fleet from 1910 until the liners Gelria and Tubantia were completed in 1913 and 1914. She was USS…
Read More: USS Zeelandia: Difference between revisions