Repaired, renamed, manned and operated by United States naval officers and men, those former German vessels carried to Europe 557,788 American soldiers. Here is the record in detail: German Name American Name U. S. Troops Carried _Vaterland_ _Leviathan_ 96,804 _Kaiser Wilhelm II_ _Agamemnon_ 36,097 _Koenig Wilhelm II_ _Madawaska_ 17,931 _President Lincoln_ _President Lincoln_ 20,143 _President Grant_ _President Grant_ 39,974 _Barbarossa_ _Mercury_ 18,542 _Grosser Kurfurst_ _Aeolus_ 24,770 _Hamburg_ _Powhatan_ 14,613 _Friedrich der Grosse_ _Huron_ 20,871 _Prinzess Irene_ _Pocahontas_ 20,503 _George Washington_ _George Washington_ 48,373 _Martha Washington_ _Martha Washington_ 22,311 _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ _DeKalb_ 11,334 _Amerika_ _America_ 39,768 _Neckar_ _Antigone_ 16,526 _Cincinnati_ _Covington_ 21,628 _Kronprinzessin Cecelie_ _Mount Vernon_ 33,692 _Prinzess Alice_ _Princess Matoika_ 21,216 _Rhein_ _Susquehanna_ 18,345 _Kronprinz Wilhelm_ _Von Steuben_ 14,347 -------- Total 557,788 The repair of those vessels was a triumph of ingenuity and engineering skill. But they were not the only interned ships the Navy restored. When war was declared there were seized German merchant vessels aggregating 592,195 gross tons, Austrian ships, 40,461 tons--a total of 632,656 tons of shipping placed under the United States flag from these two sources.