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The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company was founded in 1899 to carry cargoes of sugar from Hawaii to the United States and manufactured goods back to Hawaii. Brothers-in-law George Dearborn and Lewis Henry Lapham were the key players in the founding of the company. The company began in 1899 with three ships, operated nine by 1904 and was ...
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was headquartered in Honolulu and ran steamship passenger and cargo service between the Hawaiian Islands from 1883 until 1947. Inter-Island constructed the Kona Inn in 1928, the first hotel in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.
This power plant—supplemented with auxiliary sails—was capable of moving the ship at up to 12 knots (22 km/h). As one of the first four ships ordered by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company after its 1899 formation, American was used on the Hawaii – New York sugar trade via the Straits of Magellan. In 1901 she set a record for the ...
The company started the first scheduled commercial airplane service in 1929 as Inter-Island Airways, and became Hawaiian Airlines in 1941. [28] James A. King, who started as master of Wilder's ships and became superintendent of the Wilder shipping business, named a son Samuel Wilder King, who became Governor of the Territory of Hawaii. [29]
Ajax was a wooden, propeller-driven steamship built in 1864.She provided logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic coast during the American Civil War.After the war she was sent to San Francisco where she provided freight and passenger services between that city and other ports on the Pacific coast.
SS City of Tokio (sometimes spelled City of Tokyo) was an iron steamship built in 1874 by Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. City of Tokio and her sister ship City of Peking were at the time of construction the largest vessels ever built in the United States , and the second largest in the ...
The ship was sold to the Los Angeles Steamship Company which renamed her Calawaii. She ran freight and passengers between Los Angeles and Hawaii from 1923 to 1932. The ship was scrapped in Japan in 1933.
The Sierra was a favorite honeymoon ship for passengers wanting to travel from California to Honolulu, Hawaii. [3] Her sister ships were the S. S. Sonoma (1900) and the S. S. Ventura (1900). In 1934, Yuji Kimoto of Osaka, Japan bought the ships from the Oceanic Steamship Company for the price of $59,500 each. [4]