Hilton Str

Hilton

Former name retained.

( Str d 6.600: 1. 313'6" i b. 46'; dr. 20'8"; s. 9 k.; cpl. 65)

Hilton ( No. 1574) was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in 1911 and chartered from A. H. Bull Steamship Co., New York, by the Army in September 1917. A year later she was acquired by the Navy, and commissioned at Cardiff, Wales, on a November 1915, Lt. Comdr. Walter L. Farnsworth in command.

Out of Cardiff, Hilton delivered two cargos in France— to Bordeaux early in December and St. Nazaire in January. She returned to Cardiff and went on to Southampton to load, sailing for home 6 March.

Hilton arrived Hampton Roads 27 March and decommissioned there 16 April 1919, being redelivered to her owners.