USS Quincy, a 6500-ton (displacement) cargo ship, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1909 as the German merchant ship Vogesen. She took refuge at Pensacola, Forida, after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 made the high seas dangerous for German shipping. The ship was seized when the United States entered the conflict in April 1917 and was turned over to the Navy a month later. Renamed Quincy in June 1917 and refitted at New Orleans, Louisiana, she was placed in commission in February 1918. Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS), she made two voyages from the U.S. to France during 1918 and, at the end of the year, one to Genoa, Italy, with a cargo of Italian aviation material.
During the first half of 1919 Quincy carried cargoes of coal and fuel oil to points along the U.S. east coast and in the Caribbean. In August 1919 she was laid up at Norfolk, in commissioned status but with only ten percent of her crew on board. Quincy was designated AK-10 when hull numbers were first assigned in July 1920. Subsequently reactivated for more service along the U.S. east coast, the ship experienced another period of inactivity at Norfolk between August 1920 and May 1921. Following a voyage to Gibraltar, she sailed for the U.S. west coast and Hawaii, stopping at numerous ports along the way to deliver and load cargo. Returning to Philadelphia in April 1922, she was replaced in service by USS Sirius (AK-15), then decommissioned in June and sold in September 1922. The ship returned to merchant service as S.S. Quincy, was renamed Burgeo Star in 1936 and Haida in 1937. She was declared missing after sailing from Seattle for Hong Kong in October 1937.
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Page made 12 October 2008
Edited and reposted 22 September 2009