States Steamship Company

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Not to be confused with
States Marine Lines
.
States Steamship Company
Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company
Industry
  • Shipping
  • Transportation
  • Passengers (1928-1937)
Founded1941
FounderCharles Dant
Defunct1979
FateBankruptcy 1979
HeadquartersPortland, Oregon - San Francisco
Key people
Mr. Russell

States Steamship Company, also called States Line and SSS, was started in 1928 by Charles Dant, in

container shipping in the 1960s and Dant's fleet of ships becoming older and obsolete, the company into bankruptcy in 1979. States Line operated four subsidies: Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company, California Eastern Line founded in 1937 for lumber shipping, Oregon Oriental Line and the Quaker Line.[1][2]

Charles Dant was a major stock holder in the China Import and Export Lumber Company, which had a large sawmill plant in Shanghai.

The Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company was active with

Korea War and Vietnam War
.

States Steamship Company flag

In 1928 Charles Dant pick the swastika (at that time symbol of good luck until the 1930s) for this ship's flags. The red flag had a black upright swastika on it. After Adolf Hitler picked the swastika for the Nazi Party flag in 1937, Dant was forced to change his flag to avoid associations with a state hostile to the United States. The first flag was blue and white with a red vertical stripe at the pole and was used until the 1950s. The swastikas painted on the funnels have been replaced by a white sun cross on a blue background. In the 1950s, the logo and flag was changed to a red seahorse between the waves. New logo was ordered in Walter Landor Associate and served until the end of the company's existence.[3]

  • 1928-1940s
    1928-1940s
  • 1940s-1950s and longer in subsidiaries
    1940s-1950s and longer in subsidiaries
  • 1940s-1950s and longer in subsidiaries (variant)
    1940s-1950s and longer in subsidiaries (variant)
  • 1950s-1979
    1950s-1979
  • 1950s-1979 (variant)
    1950s-1979 (variant)

States Steamship Company ships

SS Otsego chartered to the States Steamship Company in 1941
Empire State VI
was built for the States Steamship Company in 1961

States Steamship Company ports: San Francisco, Portland,

Saigon, Bangkok, Okinawa .[4][5]

Quaker Line and California Eastern Line

Quaker Line and California Eastern ships:[6]

  • San Simeon
  • SS San Marcos
  • SS San Diego
  • SS San Lucas
  • SS San Vincente
  • SS San Rafael
  • SS San Anselmo
  • SS San Domingo
  • SS San Gabriel
  • SS San Clemente
  • SS San Felipe
  • SS San Bernardino
  • SS California, torpedoed on Aug. 13, 1942
  • SS Illinois
  • SS Iowa (1920), sank, all crew lost.
  • SS Kentucky, torpedoed on Sept. 18, 1942
  • SS Laruel, sank in 1929 on Columbia River with load with lumber.[7]

Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company

SS Nampa Victory
Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Co. operated many Liberty ships for World War II

Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company Chartered ships:

Victory ships

Liberty ships

  • SS Alan Seeger[16]
  • SS Jose Pedro Varela[17]
  • SS Felix Riesenberg[18]
  • SS Allen C. Balch[16]
  • SS Robert G. Harper[19]
  • SS Felix Riesenberg (also to States Line)[18]
  • SS William Allen White[20]
  • SS William Sproule[21]
  • SS J. D. Ross
  • SS Star of Oregon, Torpedoed and sunk by U-162 off Trinidad[22]
  • SS Jack London[23]
  • SS James Devereaux[23]
  • SS Nathaniel Hawthorne, was torpedoed on Nov. 7, 1942[16]
  • SS Henry Adams[24]
  • SS Lucien La Baudt[25]
  • SS Henry Bacon, Torpedoed and sunk by aircraft in Barents Sea[24]
  • SS Peter Kerr, bombed on July 5, 1942
  • SS Elias Howe, bombed on Sept. 24, 1943
  • SS John Sevier, torpedoed on April 6, 1943
  • SS Francisco Coronado

Tanker

Type C1 ship

  • SS Rose Knot
    (post war)

See also

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External links

References

  1. ^ Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast, By E. Mowbray Tate
  2. ^ Maritime History Notes: When US intercoastal lumber trade floated fleets Transporting American lumber by sea started with the Gold Rush of 1849, Captain James McNamara, Monday, July 27, 2020
  3. ^ crwflags.com States Steamship Company flag
  4. ^ "States Steamship Company - States Line". www.timetableimages.com.
  5. ^ "Maritime Timetable Images - Shipping in 1971". www.timetableimages.com.
  6. ^ timetableimages.com Quaker Line
  7. ^ Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum Quaker Line, SS Laruel
  8. ^ "vicshipsA". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  9. ^ a b "vicshipsB". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  10. ^ a b "World War 2 Victory Ships - D - E". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
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  14. ^ "vicshipsT". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  15. ^ "vicshipS". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  16. ^ a b c "LibshipsA". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  17. ^ "LibShipsJon". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  18. ^ a b "LibShipsF". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  19. ^ "LibShipsR". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  20. ^ "LibShipsW". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  21. ^ "LibShipsZ". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  22. ^ "LibShipsSam".
  23. ^ a b "LibShipsJ". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  24. ^ a b "LibShipsH". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  25. ^ "LibShipsL". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
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