High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sturgeon Bay was a freighter built in 1918 by the Lake Ocean Navigation Co. at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was acquired by the Navy from the United States of America (U.S.) Shipping Board on 24 September 1921 and assigned to the 9th Naval District. She was transferred to the 3rd Naval District in June 1922 and commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, on 7 June. Later that month, she was turned over to the New York State Naval Militia, on loan, for use as a floating armory at Buffalo, New York.