page_title: USS Edward Luckenbach (ID-1662)
section_title: U.S. Navy service
hierarchical_section_title: USS Edward Luckenbach (ID-1662) / U.S. Navy service
caption_attribution_description: English: US Navy cargo ship USS&#160;Edward Luckenbach&#160;(ID-1662).
context_page_description: USS Edward Luckenbach (ID-1662) was a cargo ship and troop transport that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. including a voyage late in World War I. Returning to commercial service, she was sunk in 1942 during World War II.
context_section_description: Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Edward Luckenbach departed New York City on 18 September 1918 for Marseilles, France, carrying United States Army cargo. By the time she returned to New York on 22 November 1918, the war had been over for eleven days, so it was her only wartime voyage as a U.S. Navy ship.
  On 18 December 1918, Edward Luckenbach was transferred to the Newport News Division of the Cruiser and Transport Force for postwar use as a troop transport. After conversion into a transport, she made three voyages in 1919 from New York and Newport News, Virginia, with cargo for St. Nazaire, France, returning with patients, convalescents, troops, and casuals to the United States.
  Edward Luckenbach was unable to continue her fourth voyage to Europe — this time from Hampton Roads, Virginia — because of engine trouble. She was lying disabled in mid-ocean in the Atlantic on  15 July 1919 when troop transport USS Arizonan — herself four days outbound on a voyage from Brooklyn, New York, to St. Nazaire, France — encountered her.  Arizonan towed her 425 nautical miles (787 km) toward Boston, Massachusetts. The United States Coast Guard cutter USCGC Ossipee joined the two troop transports on the afternoon of 17 July 1919. On the morning of 19 July 1919, Ossipee took over the towing duty from Arizonan, freeing Arizonan to continue on her voyage to France.
  After arriving at Boston under tow, Edward Luckenbach was decommissioned on 6 August 1919 and delivered to the Shipping Board the same day for return to Luckenbach Steamship Company.
caption: USS Edward Luckenbach as a cargo ship in 1918.
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