Shipping company in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska
This article is about the shipping company in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska. For the shipping company chartered in New York state, see Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
The Pacific Steamship Company was a US freight and passenger shipping company that operated between 1916 and 1936. The company was formed by the merger of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Company and was a direct competitor to the Alaska Steamship Company in the Alaska-Seattle shipping business.[1] Pacific Steamship Co. owned and operated The Admiral Line and The Admiral Oriental Line. American Mail Line worked with the Admiral Oriental Line.[2]
Pacific Lighterage Company
Pacific Steamship Company also operated its subsidiary, acquired in 1927, the Pacific Lighterage Company founded in 1917. Pacific Steamship Company acquired the 101.5-foot SS Warrior II on December 21, 1917, The Warrior II was a passenger ship built by the Wilmington Transportation Company and designed by William Muller. Warrior II route was from Los Angeles to Santa Catalina Island, which she did for sixteen years. Warrior II was sold on July 24, 1930, to Pacific Motorship Company.[3] Pacific Lighterage Company operated the TugboatWarrior and two sealed steel barges from San Francisco to Alaska starting in 1917, the Lighterage in the name, a lighter is a barge.[4] Durning World War II the Pacific Lighterage Company operated the ship SS Admiral Y.S. Williams. On the SS Admiral Y.S. Williams crew sank the ship to avoid capture on Dec. 25, 1941. Of the crew 29 went into Japanese Prisoner of war camp, and four died as POW.[5]
SS Ammiral Cole, Pacific Lighterage as the operator from Feb. 26, 1942, until July 1942, then turned over to the Soviet Union under the Lend-lease Act.[9]
SS Admiral Y.S. Williams, Japanese took on Dec. 25, 1941 at Hong Kong, became Tatsutama Maru.[10]
^World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD [1]