page_title: SS Friedrich der Grosse
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: SS Friedrich der Grosse / History
caption_attribution_description: Description from page at Library of Congress: TITLE: Emigrants on the steerage deck of FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE CALL NUMBER: LOT 7172 [item] [P&amp;P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45663 (b&amp;w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on reproduction. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between ca.1907 and ca.1921] NOTES: Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). 121-76. SUBJECTS: Emigration &amp; immigration--1900-1930. FORMAT: Photographic prints 1900-1930. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&amp;w film copy neg.) cph 3a45850 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45850 CONTROL #: 2001704446
context_page_description: SS Friedrich der Grosse was a Norddeutscher Lloyd liner built in 1896 which sailed Atlantic routes from Germany and sometimes Italy to the United States and on the post run 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, becoming USS Huron.
  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.
  After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board and was later transferred to the United States Mail Steamship Company, for whom she sailed in the Atlantic as SS Huron. In May 1922 the ship was allocated to the Los Angeles Steamship Co. and renamed SS City of Honolulu. The ship caught fire on 12 October 1922 during her maiden voyage, and sank with no loss of life.
caption: Steerage passengers aboard SS Friedrich der Grosse, probably in New York, c. 1907–1914
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