United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, American
_Aeolus_
_Antigone_
_Calamares_
_Covington_
_DeKalb_
_Finland_
_Hancock_
_Harrisburg_
_Henderson_
_Huron_
_K. der Nederlanden_
_Kroonland_
_Lenape_
_Louisville_
_Madawaska_
_H. R. Mallory_
_Martha Washington_
_Matsonia_
_Maui_
_Mercury_
_Northern Pacific_
_Orizaba_
_Pastores_
_Plattsburg_
_Pocahontas_
_Powhatan_
_President Lincoln_
_Princess Matoika_
_Rijndam_
_Sierra_
_Susquehanna_
_Tenadores_
_Von Steuben_
_Wilhelmina_
_Zeelandia_
The battleships and cruisers employed in troop transportation brought
back more than 145,000 men, as follows:
Battleships--_Connecticut_, 4,861; _Georgia_, 5,869; _Kansas_,
7,486; _Louisiana_, 4,714; _Michigan_, 1,052; _Minnesota_, 3,955;
_Missouri_, 3,278; _Nebraska_, 4,530; _New Hampshire_, 4,900;
_New Jersey_, 4,675; _Ohio_, 778; _Rhode Island_, 5,303; _South
Carolina_, 4,501; _Vermont_, 4,795; _Virginia_, 5,784; total,
66,481.
Cruisers--_Charleston_, 7,704; _Frederick_, 9,659; _Huntington_,
11,913; _Montana_, 8,800; _North Carolina_, 8,962; _Pueblo_,
10,136; _Rochester_, 317; _Seattle_, 9,397; _South Dakota_, 3,463;
_St. Louis_, 8,437; total, 78,788.
Merchant ships converted into troop-carriers, and used in bringing
soldiers home were:
_Alaskan_
_Amphion_
_Ancon_
_Arcadia_
_Arizonian_
_Artemis_
_Black Arrow_
_Buford_
_Callao_
_Canandaigua_
_Canonicus_
_Cape May_
_Comfort_
_Dakotan_
_Eddelyn_
_El Sol_
_El Oriente_
_Etten_
_Eurana_
_Floridian_
_Freedom_
_Gen. Goethals_
_Gen. Gorgas_
_Housatonic_
_Iowan_
_Kentuckian_
_Lancaster_
_Liberator_
_E. F. Luckenbach_
_Edward Luckenbach_
_F. J. Luckenbach_
_Julia Luckenbach_
_Katrina Luckenbach_
_K. I. Luckenbach_
_W. A. Luckenbach_
_Marica_
_Mercy_
_Mexican_
_Minnesotan_
_Montpelier_
_Nansemond_
_Ohioan_
_Otsego_
_Panaman_
_Paysandu_
_Peerless_
_Philippines_
_Radnor_
_Roanoke_
_Santa Ana_
_Santa Barbara_
_Santa Cecilia_
_Santa Clara_
_Santa Elena_
_Santa Elisa_
_Santa Leonora_
_Santa Malta_
_Santa Olivia_
_Santa Paula_
_Santa Rosa_
_Santa Teresa_
_Scranton_
_Shoshone_
_Sol Navis_
_South Bend_
_Suwanee_
_Texan_
_Tiger_
_Troy_
_Virginian_
_Yale_
These converted cargo ships brought 441,986 passengers, 10,452 wounded;
total 452,438. The nine German passenger ships employed after the
armistice brought back 138,928.
When the troop movement was near its close, in September, 1918,
Admiral Gleaves, who had been in charge from the beginning, was made
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. He was succeeded by Captain
C. B. Morgan. The Cruiser and Transport Force, which at its maximum
comprised a fleet of 142 vessels, of 2,341,038 tons displacement,
carried across the Atlantic, going to or returning from Europe,
approximately 2,600,000 persons. And this without the loss, through
navigation or enemy action, of any soldier entrusted to its care.
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