AMERICAN SHIPS
FORMER DOMINION TRADE SIX STEAMERS RENAMED In view of suggestions that an American company may resume the service from the Pacific Coast to New Zealand abandoned last year by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company interest attaches to the position of the line's ships, taken over some months ago by the American-Hawaiian Line and tho Matson Line. When the Oceanic and Oriental Company was dissolved the fleet of 12 was divided between the two lines. Those vessels taken by the AmericanHawaiian Lino have been renamed. Some weeks ago two of them were transferred to the Hawaiian sugar run, tho Golden Hind being renamed Honolulan and the Golden Peak being renamed Utahan. The Golden Star is now tho Tennesseean, the Golden lido is tho Puerto Rican, the Golden Coast is the Delewarean and the Golden West has been renamed Canadian. It is understood that the six steamers allotted to the Matson Line will also be renamed. All 12 ships were built in the United States in the boom shipbuilding period between 1918 and 1922, when several thousand vessels were constructed in American yards to meet the demand for tonnage caused by heavy losses suffered by the Allies' merchant fleets through the German submarine campaign.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 14
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