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Clio (ID 2578)


Freighter: Built in 1910 by the Werfte Voorh Rijkee and Co., Rotterdam, Holland; Acquired by the Navy, 21 March 1918; Commissioned Clio (ID 2578), 3 April 1918; Decommissioned 23 April 1918 at New Orleans, LA and transferred to the United States Shipping Board for return to her owners, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Mij. (KNSM). Suffering the ravages of the Great Depression, KNSM sold the ship to the Soviet Union in 1934. The Soviets renamed the ship Desna and assigned her to the Black Sea State Sea Shipping Co. Desna accidentally hit a Soviet mine in 1941 and was damaged. On 9 November 1941, while under tow in Novorossisk Bay, it struck a German aircraft-laid mine and sank at location 44° 43' N., 37° 49' E.

Specifications: Displacement 2,927 t.; Length 332'; Beam 44' 4"; Draft 19'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament unknown.


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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships:

Clio

The muse of history in Greek mythology.

The first Clio (No. 2578) was built in 1910 by Werfte Voorh Rijkee and Co., Rotterdam, Holland; seized by Customs officials at Key West, Fla., under the 20 March 1918 Presidential Proclamation; transferred to the Navy from the Shipping Board 21 March 1918; and commissioned 3 April 1918, Lieutenant Commander D. M. Helle, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Clio sailed from Key West 5 April for Havana, Cuba, arriving the next day. She departed Cuba 15 April and arrived 4 days later at New Orleans, La., where she was placed out of commission and returned to the Shipping Board 23 April 1918.


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