USS Huron Returns Home Panoramic Photo WWI Ship Navy Antique Print WW1

Description

Antique panoramic framed photo of the USS Huron bringing troops home from WWI, circa 1919. Copyright Halladay Newport News, VA. The photographer, Holladay, took another similar photo that allowed me to date this one.
About 21" x 11" overall.  Good condition with the typical dings on an antique frame and an old fold on the far right hand side of the photo. Displays really well. I see my reflection in a couple of the photos - sorry.
USS Huron, a 10,771 gross ton transport, was built in 1896 at Stettin, Germany, as the German passenger liner Friedrich der Grosse. Laid up at New York upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she was seized when United States entered the conflict in April 1917. In July, while undergoing repair of sabotage damage and conversion for Navy use, the ship was placed in commission as USS Friedrich der Grosse. Renamed Huron at the beginning of September 1917, she soon began work carrying U.S. troops across the Atlantic to France, completing eight round-trip voyages for this purpose before the Armistice brought an end to the fighting in November 1918. The transport then started bringing servicemen home, making seven more trans-Atlantic round-trips during late 1918 and the first eight months of 1919. USS Huron was decommissioned in early September 1919 and turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board. Reconverted for commercial use, she operated as SS Huron in 1920-1922. She was renamed City of Honolulu in May 1922, but had a very short subsequent career. The ship burned while at sea off California on 12 October 1922, and was abandoned without loss of life. Her hulk, deemed a hazard to navigation, was sunk some days later.