SS Friedrich der Grosse
USS Huron in port at Newport News, Virginia, 11 July 1919
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| Namesake: | Frederick the Great |
| Owner: | Norddeutscher Lloyd |
| Builder: | |
| Launched: | 1896 |
| Fate: | interned by the United States, 1914; seized, 1917 |
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| Name: | USS Fredrick Der Grosse |
| Acquired: | seized by U.S., 6 April 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 25 July 1917 |
| Renamed: | USS Huron, 1 September 1917 |
| Namesake: | Lake Huron |
| Decommissioned: | 2 September 1919 |
| Fate: | Transferred to USSB |
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| Name: | SS Huron |
| Owner: | USSB |
| Operator: | United States Mail Steamship Company |
| Route: | South American routes |
| Acquired: | 1919 |
| In service: | 1919 |
| Out of service: | May 1922 |
| Fate: | assigned to Los Angeles Steamship Co. |
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| Name: | SS City of Honolulu |
| Owner: | USSB |
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 Los Angeles Steamship Co.
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| Route: | Los Angeles–Honolulu |
| Acquired: | May 1922 |
| Maiden voyage: | October 1922, sailed from Los Angeles for Honolulu |
| In service: | October 1922 |
| Out of service: | 12 October 1922 |
| Fate: | fire on maiden voyage, 12 October 1922; sunk by gunfire 17 October 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 10,170 t. |
| Length: | 523 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 60 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Speed: | 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Troops: | 3,400 maximum |
| Complement: | 446 |
USS Huron (ID-1408) was a United States Navy transport ship during World War I. She was formerly the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner SS Friedrich der Grosse (or Friedrich der Große) built in 1896, which sailed Atlantic routes from Germany and sometimes Italy to the United States and on the post run to Australia. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the U.S. and, when that country entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport.
Originally commissioned as USS Fredrick Der Grosse, the ship was renamed Huron — after Lake Huron, the center lake of the Great Lakes — while undergoing repairs and conversion at a U.S. Navy yard. The ship carried almost 21,000 men to France during the hostilities, and returned over 22,000 healthy and wounded men after the Armistice.
After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board and was later transferred to the United States Mail Steamship Company, for whom she sailed in the Atlantic as SS Huron. In May 1922 the ship was allocated to the Los Angeles Steamship Co. and renamed SS City of Honolulu. The ship caught fire on 12 October 1922 during her maiden voyage, and sank with no loss of life.
SS Friedrich der Grosse (or Friedrich der Große) was built in 1896 by Vulcan Shipbuilding Corp. of Stettin, Germany, and sailed the Atlantic for North German Lloyd until being interned in New York Harbor in 1914.
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