TRANSPORTING AMERICAN TROOPS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1918, Page 4

TRANSPORTING AMERICAN TROOPS.

USE OE INTERNAL GERMAN SHIPS. The following is a list, in order of their size, of the German vessels which are now engaged in taking .American troops across the Atlantic to fight the Germans. The original German and present American names are given (the latter in parenthesis) and the capacity indicated :

Vaterland (Leviathan), 54,282 tons, 8,800 officers and men. George Washington, 25,570 tons, 4,850 officers and men. Amerika (America), 22,622 tons, 4,soo’officers and men. Cecilie (Mt-Vernon), 19.503 tons, 3,830 officers |md men.

Kaiser Wilhelm II (Agamemnon), 19,361 tons. 3,830 officers and men. President Lincoln (original name) 18,168 tons, 5,200 officers and men. President Grant (original name), 18,072 tons, 5,200 officers and men. Cincinnatti (Covington), 16,339 4,000 officers and men. Grosse Kurfurst (JEolus), 13,102 tons, 3,175 officers and men. Barbarossa (Mercury) 10,984 tons, 2,620 officers and men. Prinzess Irene (Pocahontas), j 0,593 tons, 2,540 officers and men. Friedrich der Grosse (Huron), 10,771 tons, 2,450 officers and men. Hamburg (Powhatan) 10,531 tons, 2,100 officers and men. Rhein (Susquehanna), 10,058 tons, 2,000 officers and men. Neckar (Antigone), 9,835 tons, 2,000 officers and men. Koenig Wilhelm II (Madawasca), 9,410 tons, 2,200 officers and men.

Ol these vessels, the Vaterland, Amerika, President Lincoln, President Grant, Cincinnatti, Hamburg, and Koenig Wilhelm 11, used to belong to the Hamburg-Amerika line, the other nine to the North German Lloyd’s Co. Their total carrying capacity in men is 59,295, so that in one trip they can transport close upon three full divisions.