sentences:  The steel-hulled single-screw freighter Argonne – built as "Taifuku Maru No.1", the lead ship in the , in 1916 at Kobe, Japan, by the Kawasaki Dockyards – was operated prior to World War I by the Argonne Steamship Co., of New York.While undergoing voyage repairs by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., in January 1918, "Argonne" received an armed guard.