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SS Manchuria was a passenger and cargo liner launched 1903 for the San Francisco-trans Pacific service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. During World War I the ship was commissioned 25 April 1918—11 September 1919 for United States Navy service as USS Manchuria (ID-1633) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Manchuria_(1903)

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USS Powhatan (ID # 3013), 1917-1919. Originally S.S. Hamburg (German Passenger Liner, 1899). Later named Red Cross, Hudson and President Fillmore USS Powhatan, a 18,026-ton troop transport, was originally the German passenger steamer Hamburg, which had been built in 1899 at Stettin, Germany. Caught at New York when World War I began in August 1914, she was soon chartered by the American Red Cross to take medical personnel and supplies to Europe. Renamed Red Cross, she left New York in mid-September and called at Falmouth, England; Paulliac, France; and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before recrossing the Atlantic in October with American refugees on board. She remained at New York for the next two and a half years. Also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Powhatan_(ID-3013) On the "Red Cross":

Thanks trialsanderrors for providing the link to more information about this ship. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

Edited Wikipedia entry to reflect service as SS Red Cross.

Note the stack marking on the ship at right. This is a liner belonging to the Dollar Steamship Line. " During the inter-war years, his freighters plied the Pacific and were a common sight from Canada to Canton, San Francisco to Shanghai, and Tacoma to Tokyo." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dollar