USS Antigone (ID-3007)
The Neckar as USS Antigone
Antigone Potomac
The combined ship Neckar was built by John C. Tecklenborg for the North German Lloyd (NDL ) and its combined passenger and cargo service to North America. She was the second ship of NDL with this name and is therefore often called Neckar (II ) denotes ..
Her sister ships Rhine and Main were supplied by Blohm & Voss. It was one big chimney ships with four masts.
History
The Neckar was the third ship of the combined ships of the Rhine on December 8, 1900 at the shipyard John C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde from the stack. In size and amenities, these ships were approximately equivalent to large B- steamers of Hapag.
In the service of the NDL
On May 4, 1901 she was (BRT 9835 ) delivered as previously largest ship this yard to the NDL and immediately began her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven to New York. The Neckar is to be ended on October 8, 1901 on a trip to Australia. New York - On February 15, 1902, the first mission on the Mediterranean line was Naples.
In 1905 the passenger establishment of the Neckar were changed to match the needs of Auswanderverkehrs in the United States more effectively. They now had 369 seats in II and 217 in the III. Class and 2865 seats in steerage. Like her sister ships also served the Neckar especially the emigration traffic in the United States, mostly in New York, but In May 1912, the first time to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Like her sister ships, the Rhine and Main was also used the Neckar to detachment transports for the crews and land forces of the German East Asia Squadron: from January 5 to 8 July 1911, she made two round trips from Bremerhaven to Tsingtao for this purpose.
Terms 1914-1917
On July 2, 1914, the last departure of the Neckar was to Baltimore. You should have been equipped in Havana for the supply of German raiders and then ran again on September 19 in Baltimore, where since the war began already rested the sister ship of the Rhine. In July-August 1916, the crew of the commercial submarine Germany lived on the Neckar, as the submarine was in Baltimore and unload.
Another use under the American flag
When the United States entered the war in April 1917, the Neckar was seized and put into service on September 5, 1917, after overhaul in Portsmouth ( Virginia) by the U.S. Navy as a troop transport USS Antigone (ID -3007 ). On December 14, 1917, she began her first trip with U.S. troops to France. In eight trips she brought alongside medical and general supplies 16 526 soldiers to France. After the armistice of November 1918 over 22,000 soldiers were brought back to the U.S. with the Antigone. The ship was taken out of service on November 15, 1919.
In 1921, the Antigone, like her sister ship Susquehanna (ex Rhine ) found in the service of the United States Mail Steamship Company, for which they on March 20, 1921 with 200 cabin passengers and 550 passengers in the III. Class, their first trip to Bremerhaven and Danzig started. It was renamed on May 5, 1921 in Potomac, and even made two more trips. On August 10, 1921 during the second trip, gave the U.S. Mail Steamship Co. the business on, and the return trip on September 3 from Bremerhaven was already in the service of the United States Lines. Two additional round trips to Bremerhaven followed, the last began on March 1, 1922 in New York. After that, the Potomac has again been set, and 1928, the former Neckar was scrapped in the Netherlands.