Walter D. Munson established The Munson Steamship Line in 1899 when he built a freight line Havana-New York service and then extended to include; Eastern Cuba, Mexico and the gulf ports. Succeeded by his son Carlos Munson, then son Frank Munson the Line had sixty steamers and had become the largest ocean freight company on [...]

A Stunningly Brief History of Matson Line: Captain William Matson began a shipping service between California and Hawaii in 1882 with the schooner EMMA CLAUDINA. Matson Navigation Company was incorporated in 1901 and its first passenger ship sailing was made by the steamer LURLINE in 1908. Larger passenger and freight vessels were built for the [...]

A brief Company History by Martin Cox

Union-Castle Line, famed for it’s lavender hulled liners that ran on a clockwork timetable between Southampton and South Africa, began as two separate companies: Union Line and Castle Line.

The Los Angeles Steamship Company came into being around the purchase of two ships already famous on the West Coast; the YALE and HARVARD. These two vessels were originaly built for New York-Boston service, then later operated by Admiral Line on the West Coast before World War 1. The U.S. Navy purchased them both in [...]