Description: USS Canonicus USS Canonicus, a 7360-ton (displacement) minelayer, was built at Newport News, Virginia, in 1899 as the 4665 gross ton commercial passenger-cargo ship El Cid. She was acquired by the Navy in December 1917 and converted at Brooklyn, New York. Renamed Canonicus, the minelayer was placed in commission in March 1918 and in May steamed across the Atlantic to Inverness, Scotland. During the summer and fall of 1918 she participated in laying the North Sea mine barrage, an anti-submarine barrier intended to limit the German U-Boat threat. Canonicus returned to the U.S. at the beginning of 1919, less than two months after the end of World War I's fighting. Reconverted to a troop transport and transferred to the Cruiser and Transport Force, she made three voyages from France to the East Coast, bringing home more than four-thousand veterans of the "Great War". USS Canonicus was decommissioned in early August 1919 and turned over to the U.S. Shipping Board for return to her owner, the Southern Pacific Steamship Company.
Price: 29.9 USD
Location: Saugus, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-11-30T20:25:16.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Era: Divided Back (1907-1915)
Occasion: World War I
Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in)
Theme: Greetings, Boat, Fishing, River
Country: United States
Year Manufactured: 1910
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1919
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Postage Condition: Unposted
Subject: World War I (1914-1918)
