World War I
Assigned as a receiving ship at Boston, Georgia was called to duty at the entry of the United States into World War I, and commissioned again on 6 April 1917. For the next 18 months, she operated with 3rd Division, Battleship Force, in fleet tactical exercises and merchant crew gunnery training, based in the York River, Virginia. She joined with Cruiser Force Atlantic briefly in September 1918 to escort convoys to meet their eastern escorts, and beginning on 10 December was fitted out as a transport and attached to the Cruiser and Transport Force for the purpose of returning troops of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) to the United States. Georgia made five voyages to France from December 1918 – June 1919 and brought home nearly 6,000 soldiers.
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