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- Empire Bittern was a steamship, built as a livestock-carrying cargo ship in 1902 at Belfast, Ireland as Iowa for the Ltd of Liverpool. The ship was sold to the Hamburg Amerika Linie and renamed Bohemia in 1913. The German ship was seized by U.S. Customs at New York City at the start of American involvement in World War I, title transferred to the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and renamed Artemis. She served as a USSB United States Army Chartered Transport USACT Artemis under time charter to the Army from 1917 to war’s end. The ship's last Army chartered voyage arrived at New York on 23 February 1919. The ship was transferred to the Navy and commissioned 8 April 1919 as USS Artemis with the designation ID-2187. On 18 October 1919 the ship was decommissioned and transferred back to the USSB (later the United States Maritime Commission (USMC)). Converted to cargo only Artemis served as a merchant ship until about 1923. The ship was laid up still showing in the U.S. register until 1933 when listed among the ships dropped from the register due to abandonment for age and deterioration. With the World War II emergency in shipping the ship was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941, becoming one of the Empire ships, Empire Bittern. The ship was operated for MoWT by Royal Mail Lines Ltd. and made several Atlantic crossings in convoy. In July 1944 Empire Bittern was sunk as a blockship in support of Operation Overlord. (en)
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- Sunk as ablockshipatNormandyin 1944
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- 21043 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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- 0001-02-23 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, Ireland (en)
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- Seized by the United States in 1917 (en)
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- 0001-04-08 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- *Navy only: 329 officers and enlisted
*Civilian crewed other than April—October 1919 (en)
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- 0001-10-18 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- Sunk as a blockship at Normandy in 1944 (en)
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- *British Official Number 115325
*United States Official Number 215315
*Code Letters:
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* LHMG
* BCGL (en)
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- *Iowa
*Bohemia
*Artemis
*Empire Bittern (en)
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- State of Iowa, region of Bohemia, goddess Artemis, and bittern, a bird (en)
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- Laid up about 1923, "abandoned" out of registry 1933, transferred U.K. 1941. (en)
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- *George Warren & Co Ltd
*Hamburg Amerika Linie
*United States Shipping Board
*United States Navy
*United States Shipping Board
*United States Maritime Commission
*Royal Mail Lines Ltd (en)
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- *White Diamond Steamship Co Ltd
*Hamburg Amerika Linie
*United States Shipping Board
*United States Maritime Commission
*Ministry of War Transport (en)
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- *2 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine
*2 × shafts (en)
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- * Liverpool
* Hamburg
* New York
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* New York
* London (en)
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- 0001-10-18 (xsd:gMonthDay)
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- Cargo ship and livestock carrier (en)
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- Empire Bittern was a steamship, built as a livestock-carrying cargo ship in 1902 at Belfast, Ireland as Iowa for the Ltd of Liverpool. The ship was sold to the Hamburg Amerika Linie and renamed Bohemia in 1913. With the World War II emergency in shipping the ship was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941, becoming one of the Empire ships, Empire Bittern. The ship was operated for MoWT by Royal Mail Lines Ltd. and made several Atlantic crossings in convoy. In July 1944 Empire Bittern was sunk as a blockship in support of Operation Overlord. (en)
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- *Artemis (1917–1941) (en)
- *Bohemia (1913–1917) (en)
- *Empire Bittern (1941–1944) (en)
- *Iowa (1902–1913) (en)
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