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Name: SETOS
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 19/06/1905
Completed: 08/1905
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 761
Dimensions: 4840grt, 3001nrt, 400.0 x 51.0 x 27.3ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 75 x 48ins), 467nhp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/1905 Deutsche Dampfs Ges "Kosmos", Hamburg
12/06/1917 United States Shipping Board, San Francisco; renamed ITASCA
26/07/1918 Renamed HONOLULU
26/01/1920 Honolulu SS Co Inc, San Francisco
1923 Moore-McCormack Line, Wilmington; renamed COMMERCIAL TRADER
27/10/1934 Broken up
Comments: 1914: Interned at Honolulu at the outbreak of WW1
12/06/1917: Requisitioned by the US Government
1918: Armed with 1 x 5.0ins gun
27/10/1934: Broken up at Savona, Italy


Above photo as HONOLULU copyright of the US Navy