USS Eurana, a 9300-ton (displacement) cargo ship and troop transport, was built at San Francisco, California, in 1916 as the 5915 gross ton freighter of the same name. On 27 August 1917, while operating commercially in the central Atlantic, she was unsuccessfully attacked by an enemy submarine. Acquired by the U.S. Navy and placed in commission in mid-September 1918, Eurana was employed by the the Naval Overseas Transportation Service carrying war material between the United States and France. She was transferred to the Cruiser and Transport Force early in March 1919 and was thereafter used as a troop transport, bringing nearly 1900 World War I veterans home from Europe.
Decommissioned in October 1919, Eurana returned to commercial employment. Her name was changed to Alamar in about 1930. On 27 May 1942, while carrying munitions, vehicles, fuel and other cargo to the Soviet Union as part of Convoy PQ-16, she was attacked by German aircraft near Bear Island. Struck by a bomb, she caught fire, was abandoned and sank. All 45 of her crew members and Naval Armed Guard were rescued, but 26 of these lost their lives when the ship transporting them back to the U.S. was sunk after accidently entering a defensive minefield off Iceland.
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