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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 Lurline was christened on 12 July 1932 in Quincy, Massachusetts, by Lurline Matson Roth for the Matson Lines ' Pacific services. Lurline was the last of the four American-built Matson "White Fleet" liners designed by William Francis Gibbs; Roth, the daughter of the Matson Lines' founder, previously had christened a namesake 1908 steamship ...
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.
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.
Once logs arrive at the Great Alaskan Bowl Co., they go through a 22-step process of carving, sanding and oiling to become wooden bowls, says cutter and sander Klaus Reeck. "The kind of bowl and ...
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 ...
SS Manoa was an American freight and passenger steamship that sailed for the Matson Line from San Francisco to Hawaii. [4] Unusual for her time, her engines and funnel were aft, minimizing vibration felt by the passengers and soot on deck. [5] The aft design was considered ugly by passenger ship purists. [6]
Matsonia may refer to one of these ships operated by the Matson Navigation Company : SS Matsonia (1913), served as USS Matsonia (ID-1589) during World War I; sold to the Alaska Packers Association and renamed Etolin; served as United States Army troopship USAT Etolin during World War II; placed in reserve fleet in 1946, scrapped in 1957.