)3020, she was commissioned on the day she was acquired as USS "Katrina Luckenbach" with Lieutenant Commander Eldon H. Read, USNRF, in command.Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, "Katrina Luckenbach" departed New York City on 10 June 1918, under the command of Lieutenant Bird Henry Stearns, with a cargo of United States Army supplies for American forces in France.