Standing out of Boston harbor on 1 August 1918, Savannah made for Newport, Rhode Island, to rejoin the 8th Division, Submarine Force, then consisting of O-3, O-4, O-5, O-6, O-7, O-8, O-9, and O-10. Transiting the Panama Canal, Savannah proceeded to Kingston, Jamaica Key West, Florida Norfolk, Virginia and New London, Connecticut eventually reaching the Boston Navy Yard for an extensive overhaul and conversion on 13 February 1918. Departing Puget Sound on 21 November, Savannah and submarines, N-1, N-2, and N-5 called at several ports including San Pedro, California Magdalena Bay and Acapulco, Mexico before arriving at Balboa, Canal Zone, on 31 December 1917. Seized, upon United States entry into World War I, at Seattle, Washington, where she had been interned since 1914, Saxonia was renamed Savannah on 9 June 1917 ordered converted to a submarine tender for the United States Navy on 20 October 1917 and commissioned on 3 November 1917 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard.Ĭompleting temporary outfitting as a tender, Savannah was assigned to Submarine Division 8 which had been ordered to the east coast of the United States. Saxonia was launched on 18 April 1899 for the Hamburg American Steamship Company, by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg, Germany. In 1933, the ship was renamed USS AS-8 to allow USS Savannah to have the Savannah name. She was launched 18 April 1899 as a German commercial freighter SS Saxonia, but was seized by the United States in 1917 and renamed Savannah. 3015) (later designated AS-8) was a submarine tender in the United States Navy in World War I and the years after. sold on 26 September 1934 to Mider & Marcus of Seattle, Washington, for mercantile service.Savannah with three S-class submarines alongside, in December 1924įlensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg, Germany
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