USS Wabash (ID-1824)

• USS Wabash
• Seneca
• Tübingen

The cargo steamer Wartburg was a German merchant ship of the German Steamship Company " Hansa ". The freighter was in 1900 by Wigham Richardson & Co Ltd in Newcastle upon Tyne, England built.

1905 acquired the North German Lloyd, the Wartburg (along with its sister ship Löwenburg ) of the DDG Hansa, to use the two ships under German flag under the name of Tübingen and Sigmaringen on the route from Marseilles to the Black Sea. Since the ships proved to be too large for this service, they ran from 1907 in the service of the East Asia NDL. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the ship in the port of Manila was opened and there seized on April 6, 1917 by the United States Shipping Board when the United States joined the conflict.

The ship was renamed in Seneca and was, until February 1918 part of the U.S. Merchant Marine before it was acquired by the Navy under the name USS Wabash (ID # 1824). The ship made ​​its first military travel as a unit of the Naval Overseas Transportation Service from February to April from the U.S. to France and back. During her second military tour the USS Wabash collided in a convoy in the foggy night of 22 May 1918, the U.S. Navy patrol boat and sank Wakiva this.

During the rest of World War I and in the months after the armistice of 11 November 1918, she completed three more Atlantic crossings from each round -trip. The ship was demilitarized on 21 April 1919 and returned to the United States Shipping Board.

Then the ship was first delivered to the French-American Line in New York and was scheduled for a renaming in Celeste Fraenkel, but it was in 1921 sold to the North Atlantic and Western Steamship Company in Wilmington, where it was until 1924 as a trading ship flying the U.S. flag. After a further sale to B.W.W. Newhall in Boston sold them the ship in the same year for demolition in Italy.