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USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919, named for William C. Gorgas. It was a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board after the US entered World War I. Under charter from 1917 from the Panama Railroad Company, it had carried troops and supplies to Europe. After being used as a troop transport to return troops from Europe in 1919, later that year it was converted back to commercial use as a passenger and freight ship operated by the Panama Railroad Company.

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  • USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919, named for William C. Gorgas. It was a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board after the US entered World War I. Under charter from 1917 from the Panama Railroad Company, it had carried troops and supplies to Europe. After being used as a troop transport to return troops from Europe in 1919, later that year it was converted back to commercial use as a passenger and freight ship operated by the Panama Railroad Company. In 1941, then owned by Libby, McNeill & Libby, it was chartered by the US War Department to carry troops on the West Coast between Seattle, Washington and ports in Alaska. In January 1945 it was transferred to the War Shipping Board, which later that year transferred the ship to the Soviet Union, an ally in the last years of the war. It was renamed as the SS Losomonov. (en)
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  • Transferred toUnited States Shipping Board28 July 1919 for simultaneous return to owner
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  • William C. Gorgas , physician and U.S. Army officer noted for fighting tropical disease (en)
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  • *In commercial service as German SS Prinz Sigismund 1903-1917 and as SS General W. C. Gorgas 1917-1919 and 1919-1941 *In U.S. Army service as USAT General W. C. Gorgas 1941-1945 *Transferred to the Soviet Union and became SS Mikhail Lomonosov 1945 (en)
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  • USS General W. C. Gorgas (ID-1365) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919, named for William C. Gorgas. It was a German ship seized by the US Shipping Board after the US entered World War I. Under charter from 1917 from the Panama Railroad Company, it had carried troops and supplies to Europe. After being used as a troop transport to return troops from Europe in 1919, later that year it was converted back to commercial use as a passenger and freight ship operated by the Panama Railroad Company. (en)
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