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USS Kittery (AK-2)
USS ''Kittery'' (AK-2) was a German passenger liner of the Hamburg America Line that was built in 1905 as D/S ''Präsident''. The United States Navy took her over in 1918, renamed and commissioned her as a troopship and military cargo transport in World War I. She was transferred to the United States Shipping Board in 1933 and scrapped in 1937.
==Acquiring a captured German freighter==
Schichau Seebeckwerft of Bremerhaven built ''Präsident'', launching her on 30 November 1905. Hamburg America Line operated her in the West Indies and Caribbean.
After the outbreak of World War I, she was suspected of supplying German cruisers in the Leeward Islands. Following several cruises, during which she narrowly avoided capture by English and French ships, she entered the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, early in 1915 and was interned with two other German merchant ships. After the United States entered the war in April 1917, the US Navy took her over on the authority of President Woodrow Wilson's Executive Order 2619-A of 14 May 1917. ''Präsident'' sailed to the United States escorted by and was refitted for naval service. She was commissioned as USS ''Kittery'' 6 July at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lt. Comdr. Charles Geddes, USNR, in command.
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