USS Keresaspa

USS Keresaspa ca. 1918.
History
United States
NameUSS Keresaspa
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderNorthumberland Shipbuilding Company, Newcastle, England
Launched13 February 1903
Completed1903
Acquired31 October 1918
Commissioned31 October 1918
Decommissioned11 February 1919
FateReturned to owners 11 February 1919
NotesIn commercial service as SS Franconia 1903-1918, as SS Keresaspa 1919-1922, and as SS Pannonia from 1922
General characteristics
TypeCargo ship
Tonnage4,637 Gross register tons
Displacement3,019 tons
Length360 ft (110 m)
Beam48 ft (15 m)
Draft13 ft 5 in (4.09 m)
PropulsionSteam engine
Speed9 knots (maximum)
Complement86
Armament1 × 5-inch (127-millimeter) gun

USS Keresaspa (ID-1484) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Keresaspa was built in 1903 as the commercial cargo ship Franconia for the Austro-Hungarian Diodato Tripcovich's Franconia Steamship Company, Ltd, by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, at Newcastle, England. She had been renamed Keresaspa by the time the U.S. Navy acquired her on 31 October 1918 for World War I service. The Navy assigned her the naval registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1484 and commissioned her the same day as USS Keresaspa.

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Keresaspa departed New York City with a cargo of 400 horses and mules for transport to France. She discharged her cargo at La Pallice, France, and returned to the United States at Baltimore, Maryland, on 20 January 1919.

Following repairs Keresaspa was decommissioned on 11 February 1919 and returned to her owners. She returned to mercantile service, and was renamed SS Pannonia in 1922.

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