USS Shoshone (ID-1760) was a German-built cargo liner that the United States Navy chartered during the First World War.

In 1919 she spent six months in the United States Navy, in which she made two round trips to and from France to repatriate US troops.

In 1926 the Boston Iron & Metal Company bought her and sold her back to HAPAG, who renamed her Grunewald.

[3] In 1907 and 1908 Furness, Withy & Co in England built a class of three single-screw ships for HAPAG: Westerwald, Spreewald, and Frankenwald.

On 3 January 1913 she was slightly damaged in port in Newport News, Virginia when a "terrific windstorm" caused a coal barge to crash into her.

[12] In August 1913 the wife and family of former President of Venezuela Cipriano Castro crossed the Atlantic on Wasgenwald.

[14] At 11:00 hrs on 1 August 1914, with the First World War imminent, HAPAG announced the suspension of its services.

[15] Germany ordered its merchant ships to take refuge in the nearest German or neutral port.

On 26 September the Norwegian steamship Falk arrived from Brazil to take Wasgenwald's cargo, which was bound for Colón, Panama and ports in the Pacific.

[20] In August 1916 Denmark and the United States signed the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, under which the US was to buy the islands.

The treaty was ratified in January 1917, and the territory became the United States Virgin Islands on 31 March.

Also on 31 March, the Kerr Steamship Company bought Wasgenwald, renamed her Shoshone, and registered her in New York.

[23][24] In 1926 the Boston Iron and Metal Company of Baltimore, Maryland bought Manoa, and sold her back to HAPAG.