USS Huron (Id-1408) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 that sailed Atlantic routes form Germany and sometimes Italy to the United States and on the postrun 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