Civilian Service
In 1921 Matson Line ran Hawkeye State between Baltimore and Honolulu via the Panama Canal and California. In 1922 she passed to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,which was taken over by Robert Dollar in 1925. She was then transferred to Dollar Steamship Company, which renamed her President Pierce. In 1938 Dollar was reorganised as American President Lines.
Read more about this topic: USS Hugh L. Scott (AP-43)
Famous quotes containing the word service:
“Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)