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USS U. S. Grant (AP-29)
USS ''U. S. Grant'' (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. Originally a German ocean liner named ''Konig Wilhelm II'', she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed ''USS Madawaska'' (ID-3011) in 1917 before being renamed USS ''U. S. Grant'' (AP-29) in 1922.
==World War I==
''Konig Wilhelm II'' was a steel-hulled screw steamer launched on 20 July 1907 at Stettin, Germany, by Vulcan Aktiengesellschaft. Built for the transatlantic passenger trade, ''Konig Wilhelm II'' operated between Hamburg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the house flag of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, until the outset of World War I in 1914. Voluntarily interned at Hoboken, New Jersey, to avoid being captured by the Royal Navy, the passenger liner was seized after the United States entered the war on 6 April 1917, as were all other German vessels in American ports.
Before agents of the U.S. federal government took possession of the ship, her German crew unsuccessfully attempted to render her unusable by cracking her main steam cylinders with hydraulic jacks. Following repairs to the damaged machinery, ''Konig Wilhelm II'' was assigned the identification number 3011 and commissioned on 27 August 1917, Lt. Charles McCauley in temporary command pending the arrival of Comdr. Edward H. Watson.
Renamed ''Madawaska'' on 1 September, the ship was assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force of the Atlantic Fleet. During World War I, she conducted 10 transatlantic voyages in which she carried nearly 12,000 men to Europe. After the armistice of 11 November 1918, ''Madawaska'' made seven more voyages, bringing 17,000 men home from the European theater. She completed the last of these runs upon her arrival at New York on 23 August 1919. She was decommissioned by the Navy on 2 September and simultaneously transferred to the War Department.
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