SUWANEE ID 1320
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
- Freighter/Transport
- MARK (Commercial Service) Owned and operated by the North German Lloyd Line
- SUWANEE (Commercial Service) Seized by the US Government in 1917, placed under the control of the United States Shipping Board (USSB), and renamed
- USS SUWANEE ID-1320 Commissioned April 11 1919 - Decommissioned October 4 1919
- SUWANEE (Commercial Service) Transferred back to United States Shipping Board 1919
- POZNAM (Commercial Service) Sold in 1920 to the Polish-American Navigation Co. and renamed
- PAUL LUCKENBACH (Commercial Service) Sold in 1922 to the Luckenbach Steamship Co. and renamed
Built 1913 by the Bremer-Vulkan Works, Vegesack, Germany
Served as an American civilian cargo ship
Official Number: 215528
Acquired by U.S. Navy April 11 1919
Torpedoed and sunk on 22 September 1942 by the Japanese submarine I-29 in the Arabian Sea, approximately 800 miles from the coast of India
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - An alternate spelling of Suwannee, a river which rises in Ware County in southeastern Georgia and flows southwest across Florida to empty into the Gulf of Mexico at Suwannee Sound
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