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Matson, Inc., is an American shipping and navigation services company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. Founded in 1882, [ 2 ] Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson Navigation Company provides ocean shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the South Pacific, China, and Japan.
Matson Navigation Company took over the ship on July 28, 1955. Matson undertook a $60 million shipbuilding program which rebuilt her for Pacific Coast - Hawaii service. The ship was sent to the Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation shipyard in Portland, Oregon, where she was converted into a MARAD type P2-S1-1g combination ship. They were the ...
SS Maui was built as a commercial passenger ship in 1916 for the Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco and served between the United States West Coast and Hawaii until acquired for World War I service by the United States Navy on 6 March 1918. The ship was commissioned USS Maui (ID-1514) serving as a troop transport from 1918 to 1919.
Lurline. (1932) SS Lurline at Honolulu in the 1930s. Scrapped in Taiwan in 1987. SS Lurline was the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline ' s sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa ...
SS Malama. SS. Malama. Milwaukee Bridge was a steam cargo ship built in 1918–1919 by Submarine Boat Company of Newark for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as part of the wartime shipbuilding program of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to restore the nation's Merchant Marine. The vessel was first briefly employed on the East Coast ...
SS Mauna Loa was a steam -powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation Company that was sunk in the bombing of Darwin in February 1942. She was christened SS West Conob in 1919 and renamed SS Golden Eagle in 1928. At the time of her completion in 1919, the ship was inspected by the United States Navy for possible use as USS West Conob (ID-4033 ...
United States Lines C7-S-68 Series. Eight Type C7-S-68 ships were built by Sun Shipbuilding for the United States Lines and entered service from 1968 to 1971. Upon the bankruptcy and dissolution of the company the ships were sold to other carriers. The design proved very reliable as all of the Lancer Class vessels operated until at least 2002.
U.S. shipper and carrier Matson announced this week that it will purchase assets formerly owned by New Zealand-based shipper Reef Shipping. Included in the deal are four ships and 1,500 pieces of ...