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Huron (ID 1408)
ex-Friedrich Der Grosse


Transport: Built in 1896 as Friedrich Der Grosse by the Vulcan Shipbuilding Corp. Stettin, Germany; Acquired by the Navy 6 April 1917 and commissioned Friedrich Der Grosse (ID 1408) the same day; Renamed Huron 1 September 1917; Decommissioned 2 September 1919 at New York and returned to the United States Shipping Board; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Renamed City of Honolulu in May 1922; Caught fire and sank 12 October 1922.

Specifications: Displacement 10,170 t.; Length 623'; Beam 60'; Draft 34'; Speed 15 kts; Complement unknown; Armament unknown.


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Huron 132k Fitting out for World War I Navy service at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, in 1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 94202
Naval Historical Center
Huron 71k In harbor, 1918, while painted in pattern camouflage.
U.S. Navy photo NH 155
Naval Historical Center
Huron 96k Panoramic photograph, taken by the G.L. Hall Optical Company, of Norfolk, Virginia, showing the ship at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 27 February 1919.
Donation of D.L. Tippens, 1969.
U.S. Navy photo NH 92616
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History:

Huron

Center lake in the Great Lakes and a city in east central South Dakota. Huron IV and V were named after the city.

The third Huron was built as Friedrich Der Grosse in 1896 by Vulcan Shipbuilding Corp. Stettin, Germany, and sailed the Atlantic for North German Lloyd Lines until being interned in New York Harbor in 1914. She was seized as a prize of war 6 April 1917. Her crew had sabotaged her boilers so the ship was taken to Robbins Drydock Co., Brooklyn for repairs. The USSB then turned the ship over to the Navy, and she commissioned at New York Navy Yard 25 July 1917 as Fredrich Der Grosse. The ship, Comdr. S. H. R. Doyle in command, was renamed Huron 1 September l9l7.

Huron acted as a troop transport during the remaining years of the war. She made eight round trips to France before the Armistice, and then seven more, bringing American soldiers back from Europe.

She arrived New York after her last voyage 23 August 1919 and decommissioned 2 September for return to the USSB.

Huron operated in the Atlantic for the U.S. Mail Lines (later U.S. Lines) from 1920 to 1922. Renamed City of Honolulu in May 1922, she was turned over to the Los Angeles Steamship Co.; and on her maiden voyage caught fire 12 October and sank with no loss of passengers or crew.


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