page_title: SS Edenton
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: SS Edenton / Service history / World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: USAT Irvin L. Hunt stranded in the Makassar Strait in 1941. The ship was USS Edenton (ID-3696) in 1918-19.
context_page_description: SS Edenton was a steel-hulled cargo ship built in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board as part of the Board's World War I emergency shipbuilding program.
  Edenton briefly served in the U.S. Navy in the immediate postwar period as USS Edenton, participating in a famine relief mission to Eastern Europe before decommissioning in 1919. Between the wars, the ship was placed into commercial service as SS Edenton.
  In early 1941, Edenton was acquired by the War Department for service with the U.S. Army. Considered for transfer to Navy as AK-38 but retained by the Army for use as a transport and renamed USAT Irvin L. Hunt. Irvin L. Hunt survived the war and after transfer to the Maritime Commission, was again renamed SS Edenton. The ship was scrapped in 1948.
context_section_description: In February 1941, Edenton was acquired from the U.S. Maritime Commission by the War Department. Initially earmarked for Navy service and assigned the hull number AK-38, she was instead retained by the Army for use as a transport, and renamed USAT Irvin L. Hunt servicing the San Francisco—Honolulu—Manila route.
  During July 1941 the ship ran aground in the Makassar Strait, Netherlands East Indies. The ship remained in Army service for the duration of the war, during which time she saw service in the Pacific Theater. After the war, Irvin L. Hunt was retained by the Army until January 1947, when she was returned to the Maritime Commission as SS Edenton and placed in the reserve fleet at Astoria, Oregon. Edenton was scrapped by Dulien Steel Products of Seattle, Washington in 1948.
caption: USAT Irvin L. Hunt stranded in the Makassar Strait in 1941. The ship was refloated and served through the end of the war.
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