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{{otherships|Pisa (disambiguation)#Ships|USS Ascutney}}
{{Short description|German-built cargo ship}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{|{{Infobox ship begin}}
{{Infobox ship image
| Ship image = Pisa 1896 Ems 1901.jpg
| Ship caption = ''Pisa'' between 1901 and 1914
}}
{{Infobox ship career
| Hide header = 
| Ship name = *1896: ''Pisa''
*1917: ''Ascutney''
| Ship namesake = *1896: [[Pisa]]
*1917: [[Mount Ascutney]]
| Ship owner = *1896: [[:de:Rob. M. Sloman|Rob. M. Sloman]]
*1903: Dampfschiffsrhederei "Union"
*1907: [[Hamburg America Line]]
*1917: [[United States Shipping Board|US Shipping Board]]
| Ship operator = 1920: Atlantic-Adriatic SS Corp
| Ship registry = *1896: {{flagicon|German Empire|civil}} [[Port of Hamburg|Hamburg]]
*1917: {{flagicon|US|1912}} [[Port of New York and New Jersey|New York]]
| Ship route = *1896: Hamburg – New York
*1911: Hamburg – [[Port of Montreal|Montreal]]
*1913: Hamburg – New York
| Ship ordered = 
| Ship builder = [[Alexander Stephen and Sons|A Stephen & Sons]], [[Govan]]
| Ship original cost = 
| Ship yard number = 369
| Ship laid down = 
| Ship launched = 24 November 1896
| Ship completed = December 1896
| Ship maiden voyage = 20 May 1897
| Ship out of service = probably October 1921 onward
| Ship identification= *1897: [[code letters]] RKPV
*{{ICS|Romeo}}{{ICS|Kilo}}{{ICS|Papa}}{{ICS|Victor}}
*by 1913: [[Maritime call sign|call sign]] DDF
*1917: US [[official number]] 215056
*1917: code letters LHCS
*{{ICS|Lima}}{{ICS|Hotel}}{{ICS|Charlie}}{{ICS|Sierra}}
| Ship fate = scrapped February 1924
| Ship notes = 
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
| Hide header = 
| Header caption = 
| Ship type = [[cargo liner]]
| Ship tonnage = *1897: {{GRT|4446}}, {{NRT|2895}}
*1903: {{GRT|4959}}, {{NRT|3245}}
| Ship length = {{cvt|390.|ft|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{cvt|46.2|ft|abbr=on}}
| Ship draught = 
| Ship depth = {{cvt|27.7|ft|abbr=on}}
| Ship decks = 2
| Ship power = 538 [[Horsepower#Nominal horsepower|NHP]]
| Ship propulsion = *1 × [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|triple-expansion engine]]
*1 × [[Propeller|screw]]
| Ship speed = {{convert|10+1/2|to|12|kn|km/h|0}}
| Ship capacity = passengers: 40 × 1st class; 1,200 × 3rd class
| Ship troops =
| Ship crew = 
| Ship complement = 
| Ship sensors = by 1910: [[Submarine signals|submarine signalling]]
| Ship notes = 
}}
|}

'''SS ''Pisa''''' was a [[Cargo ship|cargo]] and [[Passenger ship|passenger]] [[steamship]] that was built in Scotland in 1896. She was in [[German Empire|German]] ownership until 1917, when the [[United States]] seized her and renamed her '''''Ascutney'''''.

''Pisa'' ran scheduled [[transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] passenger services; first for [[:de:Rob. M. Sloman|Rob. M. Sloman]]; then for Dampfschiffsrhederei "Union"; and finally for [[Hamburg America Line]] (HAPAG). From 1897 until 1914 she ran mostly between [[Port of Hamburg|Hamburg]] and [[Port of New York and New Jersey|New York]]. From 1911 to 1913 she ran between Hamburg and [[Port of Montreal|Montreal]] instead. In 1905 she was briefly a Japanese [[troopship]] in the [[Russo-Japanese War]].

The [[United States Shipping Board]] (USSB) owned ''Ascutney'' from 1917 onward. She was purely a cargo ship. In 1918 she took [[American Red Cross]] supplies to northern Russia in the [[Russian Civil War]]. From 1920 she was in [[tramp trade]], sailing between ports on the [[East Coast of the United States]], [[Gulf Coast of the United States]], [[Chile]], and [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]. She seems to have been laid up after September 1921. She was scrapped in 1924.

==Building==
[[Alexander Stephen and Sons]] in [[Govan]], [[Glasgow]] built the ship as yard number 369. She was launched on 24 November 1896 as ''Pisa'' for the Rob. M. Sloman company, and completed that December.<ref name=SBS>{{cite web |url= https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?&ref=23797 |title=Pisa |work=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref> Her registered length was {{cvt|390.|ft|abbr=on}}, her [[Beam (nautical)|beam]] was {{cvt|46.2|ft|abbr=on}}, and her depth was {{cvt|27.7|ft|abbr=on}}.{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1897|loc=PIO–PLA}} She had berths for 40 passengers in first class and 1,200 in third class.<ref name=Swiggum>{{cite web |url= https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsP-Q.shtml |last1=Swiggum |first1=Susan |last2=Kohli |first2=Marjorie |title=Ship Descriptions – P–Q |work=TheShipsList |date=28 February 2010 |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref> As built, her [[tonnage]]s were assessed as {{GRT|4446}} and {{NRT|2895}}. She had a single [[Propeller|screw]], driven by a three-cylinder [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|triple-expansion engine]] that was rated at 538 [[Horsepower#Nominal horsepower|NHP]]{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1897|loc=PIO–PLA}} and gave her a speed of {{convert|10+1/2|to|12|kn|km/h|0}}.<ref name=Swiggum/>{{sfn|Haws|1980|p=91}}

==''Pisa''==
Sloman [[Ship registration|registered]] ''Pisa'' at Hamburg. Her [[code letters]] were RKPV.{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1897|loc=PIO–PLA}} On 20 May 1897 she left Hamburg on her maiden voyage, which was to New York.<ref name=Swiggum/>{{sfn|Haws|1980|p=91}}

In March 1903 ''Pisa'' reported seeing a steamship sink on 16 February in a heavy sea at position {{coord|12|43|W|49|46|N}}, {{convert|100|nmi|km}} southwest of [[Fastnet Lighthouse|Fastnet]]. ''Pisa'' sighted the ship several miles to [[Port and starboard|port]], apparently flying an [[International maritime signal flags|international flag]] [[distress signal]]. ''Pisa'' changed course to assist, and then at a distance of about {{convert|2|nmi|km|0}} saw the steamship with her stern submerged and her bow in the air. At a distance of about {{convert|1|nmi|km}} ''Pisa''{{'}}s crew saw the ship sink. ''Pisa'' reached where the ship sank, and searched the area, but found neither survivors nor wreckage.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ship sunk in midocean |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 March 1903 |page=2 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/03/04/105051020.html?pageNumber=2}}</ref> 

Later in 1903 ''Pisa''{{'}}s ownership was transferred to Dampfschiffsrhederei "Union" AG, which was associated with Sloman. Her tonnages were reassessed as {{GRT|4959}} and {{NRT|3245}}.{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1903|loc=PIN–PIS}} HAPAG [[Chartering (shipping)|chartered]] her, keeping her on the same route between Hamburg and New York. She began her first voyage for HAPAG on 4 November 1903. In 1904 ''Pisa'' made one round trip between [[Port of Odesa|Odesa]] and New York, via [[Port of Istanbul|Istanbul]], Smyrna (now [[Port of İzmir|İzmir]]), and [[Port of Piraeus|Piraeus]], starting on 5 January. She reverted to her route between Hamburg and New York on 14 February.<ref name=Swiggum/>

In the [[Russo-Japanese War]] [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] chartered ''Pisa'' as a [[troopship]]. She survived the [[Battle of Tsushima]] in May 1905, returned to [[Port of Yokohama|Yokohama]], and was returned to her owners a few days later.<ref>{{cite news |title=Was in big sea fight. |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 October 1905 |page=5 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/06/102133290.html?pageNumber=5}}</ref> 

On 9 January 1907 HAPAG bought ''Pisa''.<ref name=Swiggum/> On 4 May she landed a full load of 1,199 immigrants at [[Ellis Island]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Alien flood keeps up. |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 May 1907 |page=6 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/05/104704934.html?pageNumber=6}}</ref> 

By 1910 ''Pisa'' was equipped with [[wireless telegraphy]] and [[Submarine signals|submarine signalling]].{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1910|loc=PIR–PLA}} In the winter of 1910–1911 ''Pisa'' sailed to [[Port of Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]] in Argentina. On her return voyage she grounded on 21 January in [[Lyme Bay]] in [[south West England]]. She was towed off the same day, and continued to Hamburg.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stranded Pisa Soon Floated. |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 January 1911 |page=20 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/22/106780821.html?pageNumber=20}}</ref>

From 14 April 1911 ''Pisa''{{'}}s route was between Hamburg and Montreal via [[Port of Quebec|Quebec]].<ref name=Swiggum/> On 1 April 1912 she left Hamburg for a westbound crossing on this route. On 14 April at position {{coord|42|06|N|49|43|E}} she sighted "extensive field ice, and... seven bergs of considerable sizes on both sides of track".<ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.icedata.ca/Pages/NL_IceExtent/Charts/Ice_Charts/1912ap.htm |title=1912 – April |work=Ice Data |accessdate=6 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120214060340/http://www.icedata.ca/Pages/NL_IceExtent/Charts/Ice_Charts/1912ap.htm |archive-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> The [[United States Hydrographic Office]] received a copy of her report the next day. Meanwhile, some distance south and east of that position, RMS ''[[Titanic]]'' [[Sinking of the Titanic|struck an iceberg and sank]]. On 17 April ''Pisa'' called at [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's, Newfoundland]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.titanicinquiry.org/ships/pisa.php |title=Pisa |work=Titanic Inquiry Project |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref>

By 1913 ''Pisa''{{'}}s wireless call sign was DDF.{{sfn|The Marconi Press Agency Ltd|1913|p=240}} On 29 August 1913 she left Hamburg for Montreal for the last time.<ref name=Swiggum/>

In April 1914 HAPAG began a service between Odesa and New York via [[Batumi Seaport|Batumi]], Istanbul, Smyrna, and Piraeus. On 11 April ''Pisa'' sailed from Hamburg for New York to join the new route. On 22 June she left Batum, and on 22 July she reached New York.<ref name=Swiggum/> On 1 August 1914, with the First World War imminent, HAPAG announced the suspension of its shipping services.<ref>{{cite news |title=English lines stop ships to Continent |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 August 1914 |page=3 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/02/105456186.html?pageNumber=3}}</ref> ''Pisa'' was one of 11 HAPAG ships that took shelter in New York.<ref>{{cite news |title=Many German ships are for sale here |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 August 1914 |page=4 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/08/18/100417402.html?pageNumber=4}}</ref>

===Laid up in New York===
At the end of March 1915, ''Pisa'' loaded provisions and [[Bunkering|bunkered]]. HAPAG claimed that the coal was for her [[Steam donkey|donkey engine]], heating, and galley. However, [[Dockworker|longshoremen]] said she had loaded "all the coal she could carry", and had signed on a full crew. The [[Collector of the Port of New York]], [[Dudley Field Malone]], sent [[United States Customs Service]] officers to keep her under close watch. On 11 March SMS {{SS|Prinz Eitel Friedrich|1904|2}} had arrived in [[Newport News, Virginia]], low on coal and with her boilers needing to be serviced. At first it was suspected that ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'' might try to return to sea, and ''Pisa'' would try to meet her at sea to resupply her. However, Malone doubted that ''Pisa'' would try to get past the [[Destroyer|torpedo boat destroyers]] at [[Hoffman Island]] [[quarantine]] station.<ref>{{cite news |title=Watch steamer here |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 March 1915 |page=3 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/03/31/104643891.html?pageNumber=3}}</ref>

[[File:SS Kronprinz Wilhelm liner interned 1916.jpg|thumb|{{SS|Kronprinz Wilhelm||2}} interned in 1916]]
''Pisa'' remained at her berth at 33rd Street, [[South Brooklyn]]. On 11 April SMS {{SS|Kronprinz Wilhelm||2}} entered Newport News and was interned. Like ''Prinz Eitel Friedrich'', she was low on coal, and her crew was beginning to suffer malnutrition. The [[Imperial German Navy]] may have intended ''Pisa'' to try to supply ''Kronprinz Wilhelm''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Think Pisa's failure drove sea raider in |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 April 1915 |page=2 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/04/12/100148758.html?pageNumber=2}}</ref>

In May 1915 Malone sent 70 customs inspectors and four Acting Deputy Surveyors aboard the [[Cutter (boat)#Customs services|revenue cutters]] [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|USCGC]] ''Guide'' and {{USRC|Hudson||2}} to search all German and [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] ships in [[New York Harbor]] for explosives. On 12 May they searched HAPAG and [[Norddeutscher Lloyd]] ships at [[Hoboken, New Jersey]]. They were expected to search ships in South Brooklyn, including ''Pisa'', the next day. The US Government feared that were war to begin between the US and the [[Central Powers]], the crews would try to sabotage their ships to try to make them useless to the US.<ref>{{cite news |title=Seek explosives on German ships |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 May 1915 |page=1 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/05/13/106732353.html?pageNumber=1}}</ref>

On 1 February 1917 Germany resumed [[unrestricted submarine warfare]] against the Entente Powers. On 4 February the US government ordered that the crews of Central Powers ships in US-controlled ports be confined to their ships.<ref>{{cite news |title=Germans ordered to stay on ships |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 February 1917 |page=1 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/02/05/102316996.html?pageNumber=1}}</ref>

==''Ascutney''==
[[File:Ascutney Archangel 111-SC-34630 - NARA - 55228482.jpg|thumb|''Ascutney'' in [[Port of Arkhangelsk|Archangel]] in October 1918]]
On 6 April 1917 the USA declared war on Germany, and seized German ships in US ports. On 30 June President [[Woodrow Wilson]] issued an [[executive order]] authorising the USSB to take possession and title of 87 German ships, including ''Pisa''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shipping board gets 87 German vessels |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 July 1917 |page=2 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/07/01/96250916.html?pageNumber=2}}</ref> She was renamed ''Ascutney'' and registered in New York. Her US [[official number]] was 215056 and her code letters were LHCS.{{sfn|''Merchant Vessels of the United States'' 1918|p=79}}{{sfn|''Lloyd's Register'' 1919|loc=ARV–ASH}}

On 25 or 26 August 1918 ''Ascutney'' left New York as an American Red Cross supply ship,<ref>{{cite news |title=Yank life in Russia described by a Navy man of this city |newspaper=The [[Montgomery Advertiser]] |place=Montgomery, AL |date=19 January 1919 |page=5 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020645/1919-01-19/ed-1/seq-5/}}</ref> carrying 4,600 tons of food, pharmaceuticals, soap, and other supplies for US troops taking part in the [[North Russia intervention]] in the Russian Civil War. She called at [[Port of Murmansk|Murmansk]], and reached [[Port of Arkhangelsk|Archangel]] in late September.<ref>{{cite news |title=Doughboys Have Food With Tots at Archangel |newspaper=Perth Amboy Evening News |place=Perth Amboy, NJ |date=27 May 1919 |page=9 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85035720/1919-05-27/ed-2/seq-9/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Fighting Yanks in Archangel |newspaper=The St. Mary Banner |place=Franklin, LA |date=22 February 1919 |page=7 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88064384/1919-02-22/ed-1/seq-7/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cargo arrives from Russia |newspaper=[[New York Post|The Evening Post]] |place=New York |date=2 December 1918 |page=1 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/2004540423/1918-12-02/ed-1/seq-138/}}</ref> In Archangel she loaded cargo including 2,000 tons of flax, and three [[polar bear]] cubs.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russia sends cargo of bears and flax |newspaper=[[The Washington Times (1894–1939)|The Washington Times]] |place=Washington, DC |date=15 December 1918 |page=8 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1918-12-15/ed-1/seq-8/}}</ref> On 15 November she left Archangel, and on 1 December 1918 she arrived back in New York.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=[[New-York Tribune]] |date=2 December 1918 |page=12 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1918-12-10/ed-1/seq-12/}}</ref>

In the first half of 1919 ''Ascutney'' sailed to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]]. She left [[Gibraltar]] on 1 May, and was due back in New York on 17 May.<ref>{{cite news |title=Incoming steamships |newspaper=[[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]] |place=New York |date=17 May 1919 |page=5 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-05-17/ed-1/seq-12/}}</ref> On 23 September she left [[Port of Philadelphia|Philadelphia]] for [[Saint-Nazaire]], [[French Third Republic|France]].<ref>{{cite news |title=American ports |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=2 December 1918 |page=18 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-09-24/ed-1/seq-18/}}</ref> She left St-Nazaire on 25 October,<ref>{{cite news |title=Incoming steamships |newspaper=The Sun |place=New York |date=6 November 1919 |page=16 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-11-06/ed-1/seq-16/}}</ref> called at [[Nantes]], and left there on 4 November.<ref>{{cite news |title=Incoming steamships |newspaper=The Sun |place=New York |date=16 November 1919 |page=19 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-11-16/ed-1/seq-19/}}</ref> She called at [[Faial Island|Faial]], left there on 24 November, and was due in New York on 4 December.<ref>{{cite news |title=Incoming steamships |newspaper=The Sun |place=New York |date=2 December 1919 |page=7 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-12-02/ed-1/seq-7/}}</ref>

On 5 January 1920 ''Ascutney'' left [[Port of Portland (Maine)|Portland, Maine]]<ref>{{cite news |title=American ports. (By Telegraph.) |newspaper=The [[New York Herald]] |date=8 January 1920 |page=2 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1920-01-08/ed-1/seq-2/}}</ref> for [[Port of Genoa|Genoa]], Italy, where she arrived on 23 January.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cable reports. (By Telegraph.) |newspaper=[[The Sun (New York City)#Later history|The Sun and the New York Herald]] |date=1 February 1920 |page=21 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030273/1920-02-01/ed-1/seq-21/}}</ref> By March she was back in New York. In a gale on 6 March ''Ascutney'' and another USSB steamship, ''Costilla'', dragged their anchors near [[Liberty Island]] and collided with each other. Neither ship was seriously damaged, and [[tugboat]]s towed both ships to safety.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gale and snow cause big floods and loss of life; hundreds are homeless |newspaper=The Sun and the New York Herald |date=7 March 1920 |page=1 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030273/1920-03-07/ed-1/seq-1/}}</ref>

===Atlantic-Adriatic Steamship Corporation===
[[File:Argenfels ex Ockenfels 1910 Bau Nr 235 DDG Hansa.jpg|thumb|{{USS|Pequot|ID-2998|2}}, another of the ships that Atlantic-Adriatic tried to buy from the USSB]]
After the First World War the USSB tried to sell its surplus ships. A freight company called the Atlantic-Adriatic Steamship Corporation bought ''Ascutney'' and six other USSB ships on what was called the "charter purchase plan". The others were ''Andalusia'', ''Arcadia'', ''Englewood'', ''Galesburg'', ''Pawnee'', and {{USS|Pequot|ID-2998|2}}. Each ship was owned by a different one-ship company, and Atlantic-Adriatic [[Ship management|managed]] them. Atlantic-Adriatic was to pay the USSB for the ships in instalments of ten percent.<ref name=NYT-1920-1118>{{cite news |title=Eight Morse lines pass to receiver |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 November 1920 |page=14 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/11/18/103496779.html?pageNumber=14}}</ref> On 7 August 1920 ''Ascutney'' left New York for [[Port of Copenhagen|Copenhagen]], Denmark;<ref>{{cite news |title=Cleared. |newspaper=The Sun and the New York Herald |date=8 August 1920 |page=20 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030273/1920-08-08/ed-1/seq-20/}}</ref> on 27 August she was at the mouth of the [[River Tyne]] in England;<ref>{{cite news |title=Foreign ports |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=28 August 1920 |page=9 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1920-08-28/ed-1/seq-9/}}</ref> and on 11 September she reached Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite news |title=Foreign ports |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=12 September 1920 |page=21 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1920-09-12/ed-1/seq-21/}}</ref> She returned via the [[Azores]] and [[Bermuda]], where she left on 26 October for [[Port of New Orleans|New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Foreign ports. (By Mail.) |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=4 November 1920 |page=10 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1920-11-04/ed-1/seq-10/}}</ref>

However, there was too little demand for transatlantic freight, and this caused rates to fall from $19 per ton to $16 per ton. [[Marsh McLennan|Marsh & McLennan]] sued Atlantic-Adriatic for $27,325 owed on [[shipping insurance]], and on 17 November 1920 Atlantic-Adriatic went into receivership with debts estimated at $1.5 million.<ref name=NYT-1920-1118/> Atlantic-Adriatic's president was Benjamin W Morse, one of the sons of fraudster [[Charles W. Morse]]. However, the USSB stated that "there is no criticism of B.W. Morse's administration of this company, so far as the facts are now developed".<ref>{{cite news |title=Receiver Is Named For Eight Morse Shipping Concerns |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=18 November 1920 |page=23 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1920-11-18/ed-1/seq-23/}}</ref>

''Ascutney'' continued trading. On 2 December she left [[Port of Baltimore|Baltimore]].<ref>{{cite news |title=American ports. (By Telegraph.) |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=3 December 1920 |page=18 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1920-12-03/ed-1/seq-18/}}</ref> She sailed through the [[Panama Canal]]; on 12 December left [[Balboa, Panama|Balboa]] on the Pacific coast of [[Panama]];<ref>{{cite news |title=Cable reports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=14 December 1920 |page=16 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1920-12-14/ed-1/seq-16/}}</ref> and she sailed to either [[Mejillones]] or [[Antofagasta]] in Chile.<ref name=NYH-1921-0131>{{cite news |title=Cable reports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=31 January 1921 |page=15 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-01-31/ed-1/seq-15/}}</ref><ref name=PJ-1921-0206>{{cite news |title=Port of Pensacola. |newspaper=[[Pensacola News Journal|The Pensacola Journal]] |date=6 February 1921 |page=15 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062268/1921-02-06/ed-1/seq-15/}}</ref> On 29 January 1921 got back to Balboa;<ref name=NYH-1921-0131/> and on 5 February she reached [[Port of Pensacola|Pensacola]], Florida.<ref name=PJ-1921-0206/> By 2 March the Pensacola Maritime Corporation had issued a legal notice:

<blockquote>"NOTICE—American steamer "Ascutney." All persons are hereby cautioned against harboring or trusting any of the personnel or crew, as no debts of their contracting will be paid unless they have our written approval, and no action can be started against the steamer for non-payment of bills in reference to work or supplies ordered by anyone other than Svend E. Faber, Master or ourselves.<ref>{{cite news |title=Notice |newspaper=The Pensacola Journal |date=2 March 1921 |page=6 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062268/1921-03-02/ed-1//seq-6/}}</ref></blockquote>

''Ascutney'' reached [[Port Eads, Louisiana]] on 14 April 1921,<ref>{{cite news |title=American Ports. |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=15 April 1921 |page=19 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1921-04-15/ed-1/seq-19/}}</ref> and left on 17 April.<ref>{{cite news |title=American Ports. |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=18 April 1921 |page=17 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1921-04-18/ed-1/seq-17/}}</ref> She reached [[Norfolk, Virginia]] on 11 May,<ref>{{cite news |title=Shipping news. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=12 May 1921 |page=20 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-05-12/ed-1/seq-20/}}</ref> and left on 18 May for Genoa,<ref>{{cite news |title=American Ports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=19 May 1921 |page=21 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1921-05-19/ed-1/seq-21/}}</ref> where she arrived on 5 June.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cable reports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=12 June 1921 |page=35 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-06-12/ed-1/seq-35/}}</ref> On 6 September she left [[Algiers]] in [[French Algeria]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Foreign Ports. |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=16 September 1921 |page=21 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1921-09-16/ed-1/seq-21/}}</ref> On 26 September she called at [[Port of Halifax|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]] for bunkers,<ref>{{cite news |title=Arrivals at and Departures from Foreign Ports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=27 September 1921 |page=16 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-09-27/ed-1/seq-16/}}</ref> and the next day she sailed for New York.<ref>{{cite news |title=Arrivals at and Departures from Foreign Ports. |newspaper=The New York Herald |date=28 September 1921 |page=18 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Library of Congress |url= https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-09-28/ed-1/seq-18/}}</ref>

After September 1921 ''Ascutney'' no longer appears in US newspaper records of shipping movements. The USSB may have laid her up for lack of work. She was scrapped in Baltimore in February 1924.<ref name=SBS/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |year=1919 |title=Fiftieth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, for the Year ended June 30, 1918 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation |page=61 |via=HyperWar |url= https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AMH/USMM/Annual_List/1918.pdf |ref={{harvid|''Merchant Vessels of the United States'' 1918}} }}
*{{cite book |last=Haws |first=Duncan |year=1980 |title=The Ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr Lines |series=Merchant Fleets in Profile |volume=4 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |isbn=0-85059-397-2}}
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*{{cite book |year=1903 |title=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping |volume=I.–Steamers |place=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |via=Internet Archive |url= https://archive.org/details/HECROS1904ST/page/n652/mode/1up |ref={{harvid|''Lloyd's Register'' 1903}} }}
*{{cite book |year=1906 |title=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping |volume=I.–Steamers |place=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |via=Internet Archive |url= https://archive.org/details/HECROS1907ST/page/n731/mode/1up |ref={{harvid|''Lloyd's Register'' 1906}} }}
*{{cite book |year=1910 |title=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping |volume=I.–Steamers |place=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |via=Internet Archive |url= https://archive.org/details/HECROS1911ST/page/n820/mode/1up |ref={{harvid|''Lloyd's Register'' 1910}} }}
*{{cite book |year=1919 |title=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |volume=II.–Steamers |place=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |via=Internet Archive |url= https://archive.org/details/HECROS1920ST/page/n81/mode/1up |ref={{harvid|''Lloyd's Register'' 1919}} }}
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