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Honolulu (ID 1843)

Freighter: Built in 1905 as Setos by Armstrong Whitworth Ltd., Newcastle, England; Renamed Itasca; Taken over by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and assigned to the War Department in 1917; Operated with a Navy crew but there is no record of her commissioning although she was assigned the registry number ID-1843; Renamed Honolulu 26 July 1918; Returned to the USSB and sold 26 January 1920; Renamed Commercial Trader; Torpedoed and sunk 16 September 1942 approximately 75 miles east of Trinidad by U-558.

Specifications: Displacement 4,902 t.; Length 412'; Beam 51'; Draft 25' 3"; Speed 12 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament one 5" mount and one 3"Mount.

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Honolulu 85k Photographed circa 1918, after she had been taken over by the U.S. Shipping Board and renamed Honolulu.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 101823.		 Robert Hurst
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