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SS Harvard (, briefly USS Charles (ID-1298) , was a troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1920. She was better known in her role as one of the premier West Coast Steamships operated by the Los Angeles Steamship Company under her original name SS. Harvard. ConstructionSS. Harverd began as the commercial passenger ship SS Harvard, and along with the sister ship SS Yale, was built in 1907 at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works. Naval serviceThe U.S. Navy commandeered her on 21 March 1918 for World War I service, assigned her the registry Identification Number (Id. No.) 1298, outfitted her for service as a troop transport at Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, and commissioned her as USS Harvard (ID-1298) on 9 April 1918 with Lieutenant Commander M. F. Tarpey, USNRF, in command. On 11 April 1918 she was renamed USS Charles (ID-1298). The Navy later (on 28 August 1918) purchased Charles outright from her owners. Departing Mare Island, Charles reached Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 26 June 1918. There she loaded troops and departed Newport News, Virginia, for Brest, France, on 10 July 1918. She arrived at Brest on 21 July 1918. On 27 July 1918, Charles reported at Southampton, England, for duty as a ferry for troops crossing the English Channel. She made about 60 voyages between Southampton and Le Havre or Boulogne, France, carrying troops of all nationalities bound for action at the front during the war or for occupation duty after it ended, until 5 May 1919. Her ferrying duties completed, Charles embarked passengers at Rotterdam in the Netherlands and at Brest for transportation to the United States, and on 15 June 1919, arrived at New York City. Her support of United States Army operations in Europe at an end, Charles arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 24 July 1919, and was decommissioned there on 10 June 1920. Return to civil useReverting to her original name, Charles was renamed USS Harvard on 29 July 1920. She was considered for conversion into a seaplane tender, but this was never carried out, and instead she was sold on 14 October 1920. WreckOnce again SS Harvard resumed commercial service, however she was stranded and wrecked at Point Arguello, California, on 30 May 1931.[3] Notes1. ^Per Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/id1298.htm 2. ^Per Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c6/charles.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171298.htm 3. ^The statement in her NavSource Online entry at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171298.htm that the year of her stranding was 30 May 1923 appears to be a typographical error induced by the mention at her Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images entry (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/id1298.htm) that her wreck occurred near the spot were seven U.S. Navy destroyers had been wrecked on 8 September 1923 References
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