USS City of South Haven (ID-2527) was a transport ship for the United States Navy at the close of World War I.

[2] The United States Navy purchased SS City of South Haven on 19 April 1918 at Manistee, Michigan.

[3] USS City of South Haven was commissioned on 9 November 1918, two days before the Armistice that ended World War I. Commanded by Lieutenant Commander A. C. Wilvers of the United States Naval Reserve Force, she left Chicago on 29 November and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts on 13 December,[2][3] where she was to be fitted and sent to Europe for cross-channel transport.

[1] Following her brief stint in the Navy, SS City of South Haven would change names and ownership a number of times before finally returning to the Great Lakes.

The United States Marshals Service next sold her to the O'Brien Brothers Towing Company of Miami on 6 November 1922.