USS Honolulu (ID-1843)

The first USS Honolulu (ID-1843) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy probably from 1918 to 1919. She was built as SS Setos by Armstrong Whitworth Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1905 for the Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft Kosmos, a German company with lines to the west coast of the Americas, and sheltered at Honolulu in 1914. The United States took her over on 12 June 1917, transferred her to the United States Shipping Board, renamed her Itasca and assigned her to Army service with a Navy crew, then named her Honolulu on 26 July 1918. She carried cargo between the United States and French ports until released in 1919, was sold in 1920 and in 1923 to Moore McCormack as Commercial Trader, and was scrapped in 1934.