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The Times archive

Ad from The Times, 1903-10-20, p. 2:

Calls at Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Hyōgo, and Yokohama

Kiautschou to sail on 3 November

Web resources

• http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/Princess_Matoika.html
• http://books.google.com/books?id=JUYEAAAAMAAJ&q=princess+matoika&dq=princess+matoika&pgis=1 (Bonsor book snippets)

Google books

Public domain sources

Sources in this section are public domain texts.

The Navy book of Distinguished Service…

Summary

Captain William D. Leahy was awarded the Navy Cross for commanding USS Princess Matoika.

Citations

<ref name=Stringer>Stringer, p. 95.</ref>

* {{cite book| last = Stringer | first = Harry R. | title = The Navy book of distinguished service; an official compendium of the names and citations of the men of the United States Navy, Marine corps, Army and foreign governments who were decorated by the Navy department for extraordinary gallantry and conspicuous service above and beyond the call of duty in the world war | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = Fassett Pub. Co| year = 1921 | oclc = 2654351}}.

Excerpt

• LEAHY, W. D. Capt. U.S.N. For distinguished service in the line of his profession as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Princess Matoika engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines.

Link

• The Navy Book of Distinguished Service…

Annual Reports of the Navy Department…

Summary

Marine died from a gunshot wound to the head at the Norfolk Naval Hospital; was transferred from Princess Matoika on 1 January 1919; died 10 June 1919

Citations

<ref name=Annual Reports>''Annual Reports'', p. 858.</ref>

* {{cite book | author = [[United States Department of the Navy|United States Navy Department]] | title = Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1921 | oclc = 5164555 }}.

Excerpt

The one death was that of John Archibald Weber private United States Marine Corps admitted from the USS Princess Matoika January 1 1919 with bullet wound of skull This wound had destroyed the left eye and penetrated the left frontal lobe of the brain and left several small fragments of metal in the left frontal lobe Brain abscess formed and was evacuated with improvement up to May 25 1919 when meningitis developed resulting in death June 10 1919

Link

Annual Reports of the Navy Department…

German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast…

U-151

Summary

Tracking activity of U-151. Possible sub sighting by Princess Matoika on 16 June 1918 was not U-151. Include some details of sinking of SS Dwinsk.

Citations

<ref name=German-subs-p048>''German submarine activities'', p. 48.</ref>

* {{cite book | author = United States. Office of Naval Records and Library. | title = German submarine activities on the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1920 | oclc = 2211657 }}.

Excerpt

After the sinking of the Kringsjaa on June 14 the U 151 began her homeward journey The fact that the City of Calcutta sighted a submarine in latitude 39 08 N longitude 66 18 W on June 15 indicates that on that date submarine was well on her homeward way and was not sighted by the British steamship Aras on June 15 or by the Princess Matoika on June 16 or the U.S.S. Mexican on June 17 as was reported at the time. The assumption is further substantiated by the fact that on June 18 at 9.20 a.m. the British steamship Dwinsk 8,173 gross tons commanded by Lieut Commander H Nelson R.N.R. was torpedoed and subsequently sunk by gunfire about two hours later in latitude 38 30 N longitude 61 15 W

About two and one half hours after the Dwinsk had been abandoned the U.S.S. Von Steuben appeared on the scene and bore down on the lifeboats She suddenly stopped however avoiding a torpedo and opened fire on a periscope firing 19 shots and dropping depth charges.

Link

German Submarine Activities…

U-152, U-153

Summary

Reports from Princess Matoika help clarify subs responsible for two separate attacks

Citations

<ref name=German-subs-p118>''German submarine activities'', p. 118.</ref>

* {{cite book | author = United States. Office of Naval Records and Library. | title = German submarine activities on the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1920 | oclc = 2211657 }}.

Excerpt

Capt. Patterson [of SS Briarleaf] advised also that while the submarine was shelling his vessel a wireless message was received from the S.S. Lucia calling for help. The Lucia said in her message that she had been torpedoed and was sinking and gave her position as about 100 miles north of the position of the S.S. Briarleaf It was formerly believed that the Ü-152 was responsible for the sinking of the Lucia on the same day that the attack on the Briarleaf took place. Both the U-152 and the U-155 were in the vicinity at the time and it is the testimony of Capt Patterson and the War Diary of the U.S.S. Princess Matoika that leads to the decision that each was engaged in a separate attack.

At about 4 p.m. August 17 the signal from the Briarleaf came in. Plotted on the chart the Briarleaf bore from the Princess Matoika and the Pastores 219 true distance about 15 miles. By inspection of the chart would pass within 6 miles of the allo. About 4.40 p.m. gunfire was heard ahead sometimes to port and sometimes to starboard. At 4.52 sighted object ahead on horizon resembling heavy smoke. Firing could be heard and gun flashes visible. Transports changed course to bring objects abeam where they were last seen. Firing no longer heard. Briarleaf escaped and headed for Bermuda. Shortly after the change of course was made at 5 p.m. the allo from the Lucia was received. The allos were 150 miles apart.

Link

German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast…

Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy…

Summary

Two sailors aboard Princess Matoika died from Spanish flu outbreak

Citations

<ref name=Officers>''Officers and Enlisted Men'', p. 729, 797.</ref>

* {{cite book | author = United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel. | title = Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy Who Lost Their Lives During the World War, from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918 | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1920 | oclc = 1187918 }}.

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TIDBALL, CHARLES BROWNHILL seaman United States Navy Enlisted Kansas City Mo April 14 1917 Died U.S.S. Princess Matoika died at St Nazairc France October 7 1918 Cause Broncho pneumonia Next of kin Father Charles Martin Tidball Fayetteville Ark (p. 729)

WORKMAN CLARENCE ALBERT storekeeper second class United States Navy Enlisted Pensacola Fla October 15 1915 Died U.S.S. Princess Matoika October 5 1918 Cause Broucho pneumonla Next of kin Father James E Workman Flora Ill (p. 797)

Links;

• Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy… p. 729
• Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy…, p. 797

American Merchant Marine Letter…

Summary

Service (proposed?) from New Orleans, Louisiana to Valparaiso, Chile

Citations

<ref name=McIntosh>McIntosh, p. 20.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = McIntosh | first = Kenneth Chafee | title = American Merchant Marine. Letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1919 | oclc = 27927028 }}.

Excerpt

Next the west coast of South America. Since the opening of the Panama Canal and the consequent shortening of this run by some 7,000 miles our best schedule would seem to be something like this:

• From New Orleans to Valparaiso De Kalb, Martha Washington, Princess Matoika. Sailings on the 1st and 20th.
• From Mobile to Valparaiso, Covington, Mercury, Powhatan. Sailings on the 10th and 30th
• Time consumed in voyage (12 knots):
  • United States to Colon 5 days
    • Canal 1 day
  • Panama to Guayaquil 3 days
    • At Guayaquil 1 day
  • Guayaquil to Callao 3 days
    • At Callao 1 day
  • Callao to Valparaiso 5 days
    • Layover at Valparaiso 5 days

Total length of voyage 43 days overhaul 17 days total 60 days or 6 voyages per year

Link

• American Merchant Marine Letter…

Trail of the 61st

Summary

Story of 'race' between Princess Matoika and Rijndam; Rjindam (and PM?) left France 9 March 1919 (p. 190); arrived Newport News, Virginia, 20 March (p. 205).

Citations

<ref name=Harlow>Harlow, p. 195, quoting Kent Watson from ''History of the 133d Regiment''. <!-- No Worldcat listing for quoted work. Perhaps work quoted was unpublished? -->.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Harlow | first = Rex F. | title = Trail of the 61st: A History of the 61st Field Artillery Brigade During the World War, 1917–1919 | location = [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|Oklahoma City]] | publisher = Harlow Pub. Co | year = 1919 | oclc = 4227658 }}.

Excerpt

U.S.S. Rijndam, the ship that brought the 133d Regiment home from France. "The rickity old Rijndam wasn't a very fast vessel. The best she had ever done in crossing the Atlantic was thirteen days. But her skipper was confident that she could do better and so he wagered that she would limp into Newport News ahead of the trim rigged Matoika, a larger and speedier transport. Both vessels left the harbor [on 9 March] within an hour of each other, the Rijndam going to sea first. Bulletins were posted each day showing the progress of the two vessels and when it appeared three days out from the American port that the Princess was gaining fast men from the 133d went to the boiler rooms as stokers. Their stajnina won the race—the Rijndam reached port [on 20 March] two hours ahead of the Princess breaking her service record by reaching God's country two days sooner than she had ever done on any previous occasion."——Kent Watson in History of the 133d Regiment

Link

• Trail of the 61st

U.S. Official Pictures of the World War

Summary

Photos of many WW I troopships, including Princess Matoika. Google books images are blocky and of very poor quality. Better images could be obtained from scanning the original book.

Citations

• Moore, William E. (1920). U.S. Official Pictures of the World War Showing America's Participation: Selected from the Official Files of the War Department, with Unofficial Introductory Photographs. Washington, D.C.: Pictorial Bureau. OCLC 9425062. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

"The Olympic Games" in U.S. Air Service

Summary

First hand account of Olympian travel aboard SS Princess Matoika in 1920.

Citations

<ref name=Parker>Parker, p. 15.</ref>

* {{Cite journal | last = Parker | first = Joseph Brooks Bloodgood | authorlink = Joseph Brooks Bloodgood Parker | title = The Olympic Games | date = October 1920 | volume = 4 | issue = 3 | journal = U.S. Air Service | publisher = Army and Navy Air Service Association }}.

Excerpt

On July 26 I sailed on the SS Princess Matoika with the Olympic teams. The ship was like a many ringed circus. Loomis, Eby, Meredith, Landon, Reamer, and all the other cracks were busy on starts, sprints, leg exercises, or whatever was called for by their particular branch. The boxers and wrestlers were always at it—shadow boxing bouts or medicine ball. The swimmers, including the girls, splashed about and worked hard in a canvas tank not getting anywhere. They were moored to one corner of the tank by a rope around their waists. It was a very unusual opportunity to see the finest strokes in swimming and in fact the utmost skill in every sport. We fencers worked in all three weapons twice each day and in fact every athlete aboard was trying his best to improve himself.

I was fortunate in sharing a cabin with many others. Most of the men however were quartered in troop accommodations which might be all right for troops but certainly not conducive to bringing men to the games in the pink of condition. Let me say right here that the resolutions denouncing the executive committee of the American Olympic team for their lack of foresight and inexcusable inefficiency expressed our feelings so correctly that it was signed by every athlete excepting of course the Army representatives who could not. I think that each one who made the trip feels that he is as keen as ever to compete for his country at every opportunity but never again to do so under the management of the Executive Committee of the Olympic team of 1920.

Link

• US Air Services

Base Hospital No. 9, A.E.F.

Summary

Description of return voyage on USS Princess Matoika. Departed (from Brest, France?) 16 April 1919—two days late becaue of storm in Bay of Biscay; arrived at Newport News, Virginia, on 27 April.

Citations

<ref name=Brown>Brown, p. 145–46.</ref>

* {{cite book | first = Raymond Shiland | last = Brown | title = Base Hospital No. 9, A.E.F.: A History of the Work of the New York Hospital Unit During Two Years of Active Service | location = [[New York City|New York]] | publisher = New York Hospital | year = 1920 | oclc = 2477784 }}.

Excerpt

We remained in Port two days because of a storm that was raging in the Bay of Biscay but on Wednesday April 16th at 3.10 a.m. we left the pier and were homeward bound.

The voyage was a pleasant one. All of the troops wanted to land in New York but the Captain received orders to proceed to Newport News Va. We landed there on Sunday morning April 27th and went at once to Camp Hill.

Link

• Base Hospital No.9…

Sale of Ex-German Ships

Summary

Congressional hearing on the sale and reconditioning of ex-German liners, including Princess Matoika. Includes estimated value (PM: $900,000, p. 8), bid for purchase (PM: $1,125,000, p. 26).

Citations

<ref name=Sale>''Sale of Ex-German Ships'', p. 7, 8, 26.</ref>

* {{cite book | author = United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. | title = Sale of ex-German ships. Hearings before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session… | location = [[Washington, D.C.]] | publisher = [[United States Government Printing Office]] | year = 1920 | oclc = 123259917 }}.

Link

• Sale of Ex-German Ships…, p. 8
• Sale of Ex-German Ships…, p. 26

History of the Twenty-Ninth Division…

Summary

Account of trip on USS Princess Matoika with 113th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, on 15 June 1918 (p. 72) heading for France. Include photos of troops aboard PM on this voyage. (Would need the original for scanning.) Details of accommodations, ships in convoy, crowded conditions, two meals daily. Note: Include erroneous history of the ship.

Citations

<ref name=Cutchins>Cutchins, p. 64–69, quoting Ernest R. Kinkle and John J. Pullam, historians of the [[113th Infantry Regiment]].</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Cutchins | first = John A. | coauthors = George Scott Stewart, Jr., [[29th Infantry Division (United States)|United States. Army. Infantry Division, 29th.]] | title = History of the Twenty-ninth division, "Blue and gray," 1917-1919 | location = [[Philadelphia]] | publisher = <nowiki>[Press of MacCalla & Co.]. | year = 1921 | oclc = 3260003 }}.</nowiki>

Excerpt

The outfit was hustled aboard the coast wise steamer Norfolk which conveyed the troops out into the harbor where the transport Princess Matoika lay at anchor…

Link

History of the Twenty-ninth Division…

The Forty-seventh infantry

Summary

Account of a relatively uneventful trip to France with the 47th Infantry aboard PM; departed 10 May 1918; sub scare on 20 May (it was a bucket)'; two distress calls received on night of 22/23 May(?); arrival on 23 May (p. 177 for date of arrival)

Citations

<ref name=Pollard>Pollard, p. 26–27.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = James E. Pollard | first = James E. | authorlink = James E. Pollard | title = The Forty-Seventh Infantry: A History, 1917–1918, 1919 | location = <nowiki>[.Saginaw, Michigan| | publisher = Press of Seeman & Peters]. | year = 1919 | oclc = 3067517 }}.</nowiki>

Excerpt

Link

"America's Boss-Ridden Athletics"

Summary

Account of the 1920 Olympian experience on Princess Matoika

Citations

<ref name=Fuessle>Fuessle, p. 643.</ref>

* {{cite news | last = Fuessle | first = Newton | authorlink = Newton Fuessle | title = America's Boss-Ridden Athletics | work = [[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]] | date = [[1922-04-19]] }}.

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Copyrighted sources

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The U.S. Navy in World War I

Summary

Princess Matoika left Brest, France in the company of Covington, Lenape, Rijndam, George Washington, DeKalb, Wilhelmina, and Dante Alighieri on 30 June 1918. Covington sunk by torpedo on 1 July. (p. 63) (More details about the sinking of Covington follow through p. 65)

Citations

<ref name=Feuer>Feuer, p. 63.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Feuer | first = A. B. | title = The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air | location = [[Westport, Connecticut]] | publisher = [[Praeger]] | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780275962128 | oclc = 40595325 }}.

Link

• http://books.google.com/books?id=7O1yeZxemlUC&pg=PA63&dq=princess+matoika&as_brr=3&sig=dG3CP9S0sgjuABZ-EevG2mEhrRU#PPA63,M1

The Kaiser's merchant ships in World War I

Summary

Princess Matoika carried 34,937 troops before the end of the war. Lots of great info on this ship and others. Will need to check out.

Citations

<ref name=Putnam>Putnam, p. 185.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Putnam | first = William Lowell | authorlink = William Lowell Putnam | title = The Kaiser's merchant ships in World War I | location = [[Jefferson, North Carolina]] | publisher = [[McFarland]] | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780786409235 | oclc = 46732396 }}.

Link

• http://books.google.com/books?id=AzvOlkl-DNcC&pg=PA185&dq=princess+matoika&as_brr=3&sig=imWuxsuRKGJphatDLmByuOFSLHI

Savage Peace

Summary

In April 1919, Princess Matoika returned 5,000 troops to Charleston, South Carolina and then boarded 2,200 German POWs for return to Rotterdam.

Citations

<ref name=Hagedorn>Hagedorn, p. 163.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Hagedorn | first = Ann | title = Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 | location = [[New York City|New York]] | publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]] | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780743243711 | oclc = 85484296 }}.

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Goodbye, Darkness

Summary

Princess Matoika departed Brest in early February 1919 and arrived at Newport News on 12 February.

Citations

<ref name=Manchester>Manchester, p. 19.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = William Manchester | first = William Manchester | authorlink = William Manchester | title = Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War | location = Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] | publisher = [[Little, Brown]] | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780316545013 | oclc = 6421928 }}.

Link

• http://books.google.com/books?id=wNo0v-6RXIAC&pg=PA19&dq=princess+matoika&as_brr=3&sig=xC7ZWyLumsaKH5SQiOAGCiALKi0#PPA19,M1

Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement

Summary

Another account of the "mutiny on the Matoika"

Citations

<ref name=Findling>Findling and Pelle, p. 56.</ref>

* {{cite book | last = Findling | first = John E. | coauthors = Kimberly D. Pelle | title = Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement | location = [[Westport, Connecticut]] | publisher = [[Greenwood Press]] | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780313284779 | oclc = 32665209 }}.

Link

• Historical Dictionary…, p. 56

News bits

SS Kiautschou

1900

Hamburg America announced the building of 22 new ships for a total of $11,000,000. The largest two would be Deutschland and Kiautschou of 10,200 tons.

1902

• Sailed from Southampton for New York via Cherbourg on 3 May.
• Sailed from Cherbourg on 4 May for New York.
• Replacing Deutschland, advertised as "New twin screw Mail S. S. Kiautschou, 11,000 tons, 525 feet long, 16½ knots; to sail from New York for Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg on 15 May.
• Under command of Captain Luneschloss; arrived and sailed from Plymouth on 23 May for Cherbourg and Hamburg.
• Arrived in Cherbourg on 24 May.
• Arrived in Hamburg on 25 May.

SS Princess Alice

1904

• First NDL arrival of Prinzess Alice. NDL American president Gustav H. Schwab hosted a luncheon for newspaper men on the ship; comparisons to other ships; description of interior, power-plant; routes North Atlantic during high season

1905

• Prinzess Alice spotted Apache, one of the yachts competing for the Kaiser's Cup race, on 20 May 65 nautical miles (120 km) east of the Nantucket Lightship.
• Arrived Cherbourg from New York via Plymouth for Bremen, 8 July.

1907

• Advertised as sailing on Thursdays as part of the "Twin-Screw Passenger Service" from New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg, and Bremen.

1909

• Prinzess Alice one of the NDL ships carrying Marconi wireless, after RMS Republic (1903) disaster.
• Prinzess Alice aground at Fort Wadsworth. (full article)
• Prinzess Alice ashore (first time) off Fort Wadsworth, details (early) re-float efforts, some passengers, some ships involved (USRC Seneca). (full article)
• Prinzess Alice refloated (first time) by ten steam tugs and her own engines. (blurb)
• Prinzess Alice aground while passing through Ambrose Channel off Sandy Hook on 28 May (after re-floating from overnight grounding). (blurb)
• More detail of freeing of Prinzess Alice, collision with other liner, reloading of cargo, second grounding.
• Brief details of both groundings. (blurb)
• Details of Isaac Moss suicide from Prinzess Alice (article)

Notable passengers

H. W. Mabie

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A. T. Mahan

Senator A. O. Bacon

1905

• Howard Atwood Kelly, Baltimore physician, one of founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, sailed on 23 May 1905.
• Hamilton Wright Mabie, author, sailed from New York with wife on 29 June 1905.

1906

• Charles Frederick Millspaugh, botanist, returned in June 1906.

1907

• Alfred Thayer Mahan returned on 20 June
• Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon (D-GA), sailed for Europe on 1 August.

News search

New York Times

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Atlanta Constitution

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