Malolo (ship)
.jpg) As Queen Frederica
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The Malolo was a passenger ship of the US shipping company Matson Navigation Company , which entered service in 1927. The ship last used as Queen Frederica for cruises remained in service until 1973 and was scrapped in Greece in 1978 .
history
The Malolo was laid down on June 26, 1925 under the hull number 509 at William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia and launched exactly one year later to the day. During a test run on May 25, 1927, the ship collided with the freighter Jacob Christensen off Nantucket and had to return to the shipyard for repairs. In October 1927 it was finally handed over to its owner and put into service on November 16, 1927 on the route from San Francisco via Los Angeles to Honolulu .
From 1929 to 1931 the Malolo was used for cruises before returning to regular service. In 1937 the ship was rebuilt and renamed Matsonia .
With the outbreak of World War II in the United States, the Matsonia was used as a troop transport by the US Maritime Commission and remained in service as such until April 1946, before it was modernized and put back into service on its old route.
After two more years in service on the route from San Francisco to Honolulu, the ship was sold to the Greek Mediterranean Lines in 1948 and renamed Atlantic . After modernization at Ansaldo in Genoa , it was put into service on May 14, 1949 for Home Lines on the route from Genoa via Naples to New York . In April 1952 it switched to the route from Southampton via Le Havre to New York.
In 1954 the Atlantic went under the name Queen Frederica to National Hellenic American , in order to be used from Piraeus to New York. From 1956, the ship also made Atlantic crossings from Cuxhaven and Le Havre.
In November 1965, the Queen Frederica became the property of the Greek shipping company Chandris , for which she remained in service for three years. Then, it was cruising at Sovereign Cruises chartered before in September 1971 launched was. After three years of berthing, Blue Sea Cruises chartered the ship for cruises in the Mediterranean before it was finally decommissioned in November 1973.
After almost four years of lay in Greece, the Queen Frederica was sold to Perama for scrapping in July 1977 . During the demolition work, the ship was destroyed in a fire in February 1978.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ssmaritime.com (English)