Ọ bụ ụgbọ mmiri nke abụọ nke ndị agha ụgbọ mmiri aha ya bụ Honolulu, Hawaii, ọ malitere na 26 August 1937 na New York Navy Yard, nke Helen Poindexter (nwa nwanyị nke Joseph B. Poindexter, Gọvanọ nke Hawaii) kwadoro, ma nye ya ọrụ na 15 June 1938, na Captain Oscar Smith na-eduzi. Mgbe ọ na-agba ụgbọ mmiri na England, Honolulu na-arụ ọrụ na nsogbu ụgbọ mmiri na mmega ahụ na Oké Osimiri Caribbean. Ọ kwụsịrị na New York na 24 May 1939 iji sonye na Pacific Fleet, na-abata na San Pedro, California na 14 June. N'ime afọ fọdụrụnụ, ọ na-arụ ọrụ na West Coast. N'oge ọkara mbụ nke 1940, Honolulu nọgidere na-arụ ọrụ na Long Beach, California na mgbe a na-arụ ọrụ na Puget Sound, ọ kwụsịrị na Long Beach Naval Shipyard na 5 November 1941 maka ọrụ site na Pearl Harbor.
Afọ 1939