SS Pennsylvania (1896)

SS Pennsylvania was a transatlantic liner launched in Ireland in 1896 that spent most of her career with the Hamburg America Line, the first of a class of four sister ships built in the United Kingdom and Germany between 1896 and 1899. Harland and Wolff built her at Belfast as a three-class ship, launching her on 10 September 1896 and completing her on 30 January 1897. She measured 13,265 gross register tons and had twin propellers, each driven by a four-cylinder quadruple-expansion steam engine, rated together at 695 nominal horsepower and giving 14 knots. In 1917 the United States Government seized her and renamed her Nansemond, and she served as an Army troop ship and in 1919 as the Navy troop ship USS Nansemond. Converted to a cargo-only ship, she was scrapped at Baltimore in 1924.