rdfs:comment | - The first Navy ship to bear the name, Newport News was a cargo ship built in 1904 by Flensburg Shipbuilding Co., Flensburg, Germany She was taken over as SS Odenwald by the U.S. Navy from the Hamburg-American Line in compliance with dated 14 May 1917; renamed Newport News and commissioned 14 July 1917, Lt. Comdr. John Allison, USNRF, in command.
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abstract | - The first Navy ship to bear the name, Newport News was a cargo ship built in 1904 by Flensburg Shipbuilding Co., Flensburg, Germany She was taken over as SS Odenwald by the U.S. Navy from the Hamburg-American Line in compliance with dated 14 May 1917; renamed Newport News and commissioned 14 July 1917, Lt. Comdr. John Allison, USNRF, in command.
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