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USS ''Suwanee'' (ID-1320) was a United States Navy transport in commission in 1919. She was the second ship to carry her name. ==Construction and service history== ''Suwanee'' was built as the German cargo ship SS ''Mark'' in 1913 at Vegesack, Germany, by Bremer-Vulkan Works for the North German Lloyd Line. She was the fifth freighter of the Rheinland-Class built for the Australian Freight Line via the Cape. When World War I began in August 1914, ''Mark'' was in Japan and left Kobe with 4,000 t of coal for the Squadron of Admiral Spee. Supplying the ships of the Imperial Navy at Pagan Island, she at last served for some days the auxiliary cruisers SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Cormoran. On 7 October 1914 she took refuge at Manila on Luzon in the Philippine Islands, then a neutral territory of the United States, to avoid capture or destruction by Allied naval forces. She was still there when the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies in April 1917. The United States Government seized her and placed her under the control of the United States Shipping Board. Renamed SS ''Suwanee'', she served as an American civilian cargo ship through the end of World War I on 11 November 1918 and into early 1919. The U.S. Navy acquired ''Suwanee'' on 11 April 1919 for post-war use as a troop transport. She was assigned the Naval Registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1320 and commissioned the same day〔Per the ships (''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' ) and (NavSource Online ) entries, the ship was commissioned on 11 April 1919, although (her U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images entry ) claims she may not have been commissioned until later in April 1919 or even sometime in May 1919. The difference may arise from confusion over whether she was commissioned on the day of her acquisition or after her conversion from a cargo ship to a troop transport, which presumably took until later in April or sometime in May.〕 as USS ''Suwanee'' with Lieutenant Commander John A. Chambers (USNR) in command. Assigned to the Transport Force, Newport News Division, ''Suwanee'' made at least one Atlantic crossing to carry American servicemen home to the United States after their World War I service in Europe . ''Suwanee'' was decommissioned on 4 October 1919 and returned to the Shipping Board the same day for disposal. Once again SS ''Suwanee'', she returned to commercial service. Her named later was changed to SS ''Poznan'' of the Polish American Navigation and 1922 to ''Paul Luckenbach'' when R. Luckenbach Steamship bought her. In 1942 she was sunk in the Arabian sea by a Japanese submarine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Suwanee (ID-1320)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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