World War I Service
During her first three weeks of naval service, Kanawha II performed various duties in the New York area. Then outfitted for distant service, she got underway, for Europe, 9 June 1917. She arrived at Brest, France, 4 July 1917, in the vanguard of the flotilla of ships of war sent to France following the entry of the United States into World War I.
Two weeks after her arrival she began patrol off Brest. On 3 September 1917, she sighted her first enemy periscope off the French coast, but was unable to press an attack. Toward the end of November, on the 28th, she sighted another closing on a convoy. She issued a submarine warning and the U-boat was later tracked and sunk by two other patrol vessels equipped with depth bombs. The convoy continued undamaged. On 16 July 1918, while steaming in convoy the former pleasure craft, renamed Piqua 1 March 1918, sighted the conning tower of a third U-boat-on a heading almost parallel with the course of the convoy.
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