U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List, WWI 109

Abstract

The U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List collection is composed of a 14-page typed list of all known U.S. Army troop transport ships, or ships procured through requisitions or confiscation, created by the North Carolina Historical Commission just after World War I. The information appears to be based on official U.S. War Department document or information, or was provided to the Historical Commission by a federal department just after WWI. The list documents the names of the ships and the owners of the ships under various categories for the purpose or source of the ship during the war. The ships' names are organized alphabetically under the category headings. There are also listings of foreign ships confiscated by the U.S. government and transformed into troop transports, as well as listings of all of the ships used by the Army to help transport American and British troops across the English Channel to France.

The list is divided up as follows: Vessels used as Army Transports, with owners; Inter-Philippine Island Transports; Troop Transports with were formerly Cargo Transports; U.S. Navy Battleships and Cruisers used in Brining Troops to U.S.; U.S. Navy Vessels Assigned as Troop Transports for U.S. Coastwise Service (Transferred from Cross Channel Service); U.S. Navy Vessels used as Hospital Ships; Assigned Foreign Troop Transports; Army Transports in Philippine and Panama Service; Vessels in Cross Channel Service; Vessels formerly U.S. Navy Account loaned to Army for Cross Channel Coal Trade; British Vessels; and 50% of Cargo Space on British Liners Allocated by Inter-Allied Maritime Transport Council.

Descriptive Summary

Title: U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List
Call Number: WWI 109
Creator: North Carolina Historical Commission
Date: ca. 1919
Extent: 0.010 cubic feet
Repository: State Archives of North Carolina

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Preferred Citation

Folder 1, U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List, WWI 109, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

Collection Overview

The collection is composed of a 14-page typed list of all known U.S. Army troop transport ships, or ships procured through requisitions or confiscation, created by the North Carolina Historical Commission just after World War I. The information appears to be based on official U.S. War Department document or information, or was provided to the Historical Commission by a federal department just after WWI. The list documents the names of the ships and the owners of the ships under various categories for the purpose or source of the ship during the war. The ships' names are organized alphabetically under the category headings. There are also listings of foreign ships confiscated by the U.S. government and transformed into troop transports, as well as listings of all of the ships used by the Army to help transport American and British troops across the English Channel to France.

The list is divided up as follows: Vessels used as Army Transports, with owners; Inter-Philippine Island Transports; Troop Transports with were formerly Cargo Transports; U.S. Navy Battleships and Cruisers used in Brining Troops to U.S.; U.S. Navy Vessels Assigned as Troop Transports for U.S. Coastwise Service (Transferred from Cross Channel Service); U.S. Navy Vessels used as Hospital Ships; Assigned Foreign Troop Transports; Army Transports in Philippine and Panama Service; Vessels in Cross Channel Service; Vessels formerly U.S. Navy Account loaned to Army for Cross Channel Coal Trade; British Vessels; and 50% of Cargo Space on British Liners Allocated by Inter-Allied Maritime Transport Council.

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Contents of the Collection

U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List, ca. 1919

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Acquisitions Information

The collection was formerly part of the Robert B. House Collection, World War I Papers, 1903-1933 (presently, WWI 82 Robert B. House Collection). It was removed from that collection as the significance of the materials warranted being in their own collection.This collection created by the North Carolina Historical Commission (subsequently the State Archives of North Carolina) between 1918 and 1921. The North Carolina's War Records Collector Robert B. House attempted to collect, compile, and document as many North Carolina WWI service individuals as possible. House and his staff collected information from various federal offices-including the War Department-regarding operations that affected North Carolina servicemen. This included lists of units, war medal winners, and relevant military facts from the war. This included the list of U.S. Army troop transport ships used during WWI. As this collection was compiled from public records by the North Carolina Historical Commission, there was never a need for the collection to be accessioned in the Historical Commission's holdings, or for a contract of gift to be signed for donation of the list to the Historical Commission.All of the materials in this collection were acquired, collected, or created as part of the North Carolina Historical Commission's on-going World War historic materials collection project, which was authorized by Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter 144 of the North Carolina Public Laws and Resolutions in 1919.

Processing Information

During the 1920s, the North Carolina Historical Commission worked on arranging the World War I Papers in groups of common themes or creators. In 1964, Maurice S. Toler and John R. Woodard of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History prepared a finding aid for the "World War I Papers, 1903-1933," which consisted of thirteen series of records. This was the first known formal organization of the World War I materials, and a basic finding aid for these papers completed to the box and item level was finalized on June 30, 1964. The House Collection was included in the series formerly titled as "Private Collections."

This collection was reprocessed in 2018 to better reflect the original intent of the records' creators. Robert B. House left his position as North Carolina War Records Collector in 1921, and deposited his college, military, and War Collectors materials as an archival collection at the State Archives. House's materials included typescripts of information, military unit lists, and military awards lists, that House never finished adding to the WWI Papers before he left his War Records Collector position. It was determined that placing the U.S. Army Troop Transport Ships List in its own collection matched the original intentions of House, and that the materials would be more discoverable by researchers if they were removed from the House Collection. The original House collection is now entitled Robert B. House Collection, and is numbered "WWI 82" in the WWI Papers.

This collection was organized in an acid-free archival file folder, with ships list organized on numbered pages in alphabetical order by the name of the ship under headings defining and dividing the type or purpose of the ship.