sentences:  "Kanawha" was acquired in April 1917 by the U.S. Navy from her then owner, John Borden, and commissioned as "USS Kanawha II" (SP–130) under Borden's command.She was placed into service as an escort for Allied convoys traveling across the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean.Later renamed "Piqua", she attacked a German U-boat off the coast of France and drove it off.