USS Wabash (ID-1824)

The ship as Seneca
History
Name	1900: Wartburg 1905: Tübingen 1917: Seneca 1918: Wabash
Namesake	1900: Wartburg 1905: Tübingen 1917: Seneca people 1918: Wabash River
Owner	1900: DDG „Hansa“ 1905: Norddeutscher Lloyd 1917: US Shipping Board 1921: N Atlantic & W SS Co
Operator	1918: United States Navy
Port of registry	1900: Bremen 1919: San Francisco 1921: New York 1922: Wilmington
Builder	Wigham Richardson, Low Walker
Yard number	365
Launched	11 September 1900
Completed	October 1900
Commissioned	9 February 1918
Decommissioned	21 April 1919
Identification	1900: code letters QHDF 1918: US official number 215554 1918: Naval Registry ID-1824 1919: code letters LHTD
Fate	Scrapped, 1924
General characteristics
Type	cargo ship
Tonnage	5,448 GRT, 3,516 NRT
Displacement	10,475 tons
Length	381.0 ft (116.1 m)
Beam	49.9 ft (15.2 m)
Depth	26.6 ft (8.1 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	460 NHP; 2,500 ihp
Propulsion	1 × quadruple-expansion engine 1 × screw
Speed	13.5 knots (25 km/h) maximum; 11.4 knots (21 km/h) cruising
Complement	in US Navy: 93
Sensors and processing systems	by 1911: submarine signalling
Armament	1918: 1 × 5-inch/40-caliber gun 1 × 3-inch/23-caliber gun
Notes	sister ship: Löwenburg

USS Wabash (ID-1824) was a cargo steamship. She was launched in Germany in 1900 for DDG „Hansa“ as Wartburg. In 1905 Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) bought her and renamed her Tübingen. In 1917 the United States seized her and renamed her Seneca. In 1918 she was commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Wabash. She was scrapped in Italy in 1924.

She was the second of three DDG „Hansa“ ships to be named after Wartburg castle in Thuringia. The first was launched in 1888; sold and renamed in 1900; and abandoned in 1903.^[1] The third was launched in 1905; surrendered to the Allies and renamed in 1919; and scrapped in 1932.^[2]

She was the first of two NDL ships to be called Tübingen. The second was built in 1929 from the salvaged part of a British ship called Delaware; sold in 1935; and sunk in 1945.^[3]

She was one of several ships to be called Seneca, and the second of four ships to be called USS Wabash.