Service History
Seized when the United States entered the war in April 1917, she was repaired and taken over by the Navy, on bare boat basis, from the Shipping Board, on 28 October 1918, and commissioned as Pequot the same day. Lt. Comdr. John Decry, USNRF, in command, she served in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) as a general cargo carrier on both the Army and Shipping Board accounts. She was struck from the Navy List and returned to the Shipping Board on 11 July 1919.
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