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CALAWAII ex: MOBILE, SHERMAN
CALAWAII, LASSCO Line postard, circa 1924 (Martin Cox collection)
CALAWAII (1893)
Los Angeles Steamship Co 1922-1933
Built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast as freighter MOBILE 1893
(for African Steamship Company, managed by Elder Dempster Line)
7,271 GRT
465 x 49 feet
Twin Screw, triple expansion engines
13.5 knots
Maiden Voyage London-New York, 20 Jan. 1893. Bought by Atlantic Transport Line
(Great Britain) October 1896, limited passenger capacity was added, year unknown.
Bought by United States Government 1898; renamed U.S.A.T. SHERMAN. Converted to
Army transport for use in Spanish-American War, later employed as troop transport
to Phillipines.
U.S.A.T. SHERMAN (Martin Cox collection)
Bought by Los Angeles Steamship Co 1922 for $60,000. Renamed CALAWAII and refitted with accommodation for 203 cabin passengers in all outside staterooms at Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co at a cost of $300,000. Painted white with back funnels with crew of 121 for her first voyage Los Angeles - Honolulu, February 10, 1923. She proved to be a popular liner and sailed in tandem with CITY OF LOS ANGELES in Hawaii service until laid up in Los Angeles July, 1932 after 125 voyages to Hawaii. With MALOLO out of service winter 1932 she made two more round trip voyages to Hawaii returning to Los Angeles January 13, 1933. Sold for scrap in Japan and sailed for Osaka August 26 1933.