High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS DeKalb (ID-3010) was a transport in the United States Navy. She was named for General Baron Johann de Kalb after being seized. DeKalb was launched 18 June 1904 by Vulcan Company, Stettin, Germany, as Prinz Eitel Friedrich, an ocean liner for North German Lloyd. She was operated on the Empire-steamship-postcourse to the Far East. When the First World War broke out in August 1914 she was at Shanghai and was ordered to the then German colony Qingdao, China, where she was quickly converted to an auxiliary cruiser for the German Navy. Prinz Eitel Friedrich got the guns and crews of two gunboats (SMS Tiger and SMS Luchs), which were demilitarised. For the next seven months the ship operated on the high seas with Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee's squadron and as a detached commerce raider. Among her victims while in the latter role was the schooner William P. Frye, captured on 27 January 1915 and scuttled the next day, the first U.S. flag vessel sunk in World War I.

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