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26-505: SS Lurline may refer to one of the following Matson Navigation Company ships: SS  Lurline  (1908) , later Alaska Packers Association ship Chirikof , served as USAT Chirikof during World War II SS  Lurline  (1932) , ocean liner SS  Lurline  (1931) , the former SS Monterey ; named Lurline , 1963–1970 SS  Lurline  (2019) , container ship [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with

52-513: A brief period after World War II , Matson operated an airline using Douglas DC-4 aircraft between the Pacific Coast and Hawaii. The airline ultimately ceased operations because of political pressure from Pan American World Airways , which resulted in inability to obtain federal government scheduled operating authority. On December 1, 2011, Matson's then-parent company Alexander & Baldwin announced that its board of directors approved

78-575: A plan to split A&B and Matson into two separate companies. As part of the plan, Matson would leave Oakland, California , to become a Honolulu -based company. The two companies are now traded separately. In 2015, Matson, Inc., acquired Horizon Lines , formerly its main competitor in the United States domestic market, for $ 469 million. Joining two Aloha-class freighter sister ships delivered to Matson in 2018 and 2019; in November 2022,

104-536: Is an American company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii . The company currently operates businesses in real estate , land operations, and materials and construction. It was also the last "Big Five" company to cultivate sugarcane. As of 2020 , it remains one of the State of Hawaii's largest private landowners, owning over 28,000 acres (11,000 ha) and operating 36 income properties in

130-601: The Oceanic Steamship Company (Spreckels Line), operating three trans-Pacific liners, including the SS Sonoma . From the early 20th century through the 1970s, Matson liners sailed from the west coast ports of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu and points beyond, including a handful of South Pacific ports of call as well as Sydney , Australia and Auckland , New Zealand . Two of their earlier cargo liners , Maui and Wilhelmina , were

156-553: The Hawaii Department of Health with a petition signed by 8,700 Maui residents, asking it to deny the company a burning permit for the coming year. The company's Puunene Mill had also attracted criticism from residents, who pointed out that its equipment did not meet federal emissions standards and that its high coal consumption produced unsafe levels of sulfur dioxide. Some activists had reported receiving threats from or being assaulted by HC&S employees and members of

182-493: The Hawaiian Islands. Reverend William Alexander and Mary McKinney Alexander arrived the following year. Alexander & Baldwin was founded by their sons Samuel Thomas Alexander and Henry Perrine Baldwin (1842–1911) as Samuel T Alexander & Co., in 1870. The two purchased 561 acres (227 ha) of land on the island of Maui between Pāʻia and Makawao , on which they began to cultivate sugarcane . The land

208-491: The aqueduct in 1876 and was completed two years later in 1878. After completion of the aqueduct, the company was eventually renamed Alexander & Baldwin Plantation. Between 1872 and 1900, the company took over more land and sugar mill operations. In 1898, Alexander and Baldwin purchased a controlling interest in one of its rival companies, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) from Claus Spreckels . By 1899,

234-612: The carrying of merchandise, especially of plantation stores, to the islands and returning with cargoes of sugar, later expanding interests at each end of the line. In 1924, Matson completed the Matson Building , designed by Bliss and Faville , at 215 Market Street in San Francisco, and noted as "one of a series of Chicago School skyscrapers built during the 1910s and 1920s which give San Francisco its downtown character." It featured an observation tower and cupola at

260-495: The company again contracted Philly Shipyard to build three new 3,600  twenty-foot equivalent units  (TEU) Jones Act -compliant container ships at a cost of $ 1 billion. Primarily a conveyor of freight; from 1908 on, Matson introduced into service a number of passenger liners to capitalize on the burgeoning tourist trade. In 1926, following the death of its founder, John D. Spreckels whose father, Claus Spreckels , had been Matson's earliest financier; Matson took over

286-537: The company bought a portion of the Matson Navigation Company , a major shipping line operating in the territory. The company sold its sugar interests on Kauaʻi and consolidated all of its Maui operations into an enlarged Hawaii Commercial & Sugar Company in the 1930s while continuing its pineapple operations as well as its sugarcane plantation in Kahuku until the 1960s. Following World War II ,

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312-634: The company entered a new business: land development and real estate. The company formed a new subsidiary, the Kahului Development Co., to develop housing in the Kahului area. In the following years, the company became more involved in the development of its land and the Kahului Development Co. became A&B Properties, Inc. In 1962, the company purchased all outstanding interests in the Hawaii Commercial & Sugar Company and

338-636: The company entered many new businesses and controlled more than 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land in the Territory. In 1905, Alexander & Baldwin and other Big Five companies took control of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H), giving Alexander & Baldwin a factory where they could refine its sugar. Over the following decades, the company opened or bought out sugar operations at Puʻunene , Kahuku , and Kauaʻi island as well as pineapple operations on Maui and Kauaʻi. In 1908,

364-437: The company had bought out Maui's two main railroad lines ( Kahului Railroad Company and Maui Railroad & Steamship Company). In 1900, the company incorporated and was renamed Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. Following incorporation, the company continued to prosper. It came to be one of Hawaii's Big Five companies which held a virtual oligarchy over Hawaii's economy during the region's territorial years. In this period,

390-514: The company's development and real estate division has grown as A&B Properties developed new residential and commercial projects on other land the company owned. In addition, Alexander & Baldwin entered diversified agriculture, beginning to cultivate coffee and macadamia nuts in the 1980s. In 2012 the Matson Navigation Company , in which the Alexander & Baldwin had held an investment for 140 years and gained full ownership of in 1969,

416-453: The dried leafy material from its crop." Maui environmentalists and physicians countered by asserting that the burning process caused increased rates of asthma and respiratory disease, especially among children, released carcinogens from burning PVC pipes used in the irrigation system, and resulted in highway closures and car crashes. Community organizers called on A&B to replace burning with green harvesting methods, and in 2012, presented

442-755: The end of the 1970s. In 1925, Matson acquired a controlling interest in the historic Moana Hotel on Waikiki on the island of Oahu . They constructed the nearby Royal Hawaiian Hotel in 1927. In 1952, they built the SurfRider Hotel (today a wing of the Moana), followed by the Princess Kaiulani Hotel in 1955. They sold the four properties to Sheraton Hotels in 1959. Matson's current cargo fleet of U.S.-flagged vessels include: Alexander %26 Baldwin Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.

468-407: The first passenger ships to place their engines aft. Among the "white ships of Matson" were Malolo (rechristened Matsonia ), Lurline , Mariposa , and Monterey . With the advent and expansion of routine air travel between the mainland and the islands, Matson's passenger service was greatly diminished, and the liners were eventually retired from trans-Pacific service and virtually gone by

494-487: The northern corner of the building that enabled company executives to see its ships coming through the Golden Gate . The company later sold the building to Pacific Gas and Electric Company , whose general office was next door at 245 Market. PG&E has incorporated the former Matson Building into its general office complex, keeping Matson-specific details such as elevator doors with detailed maps of Hawaii on them. For

520-415: The partners cultivated was semi-arid former dry forest , not ideal for growing sugarcane, a crop that required much water. Samuel Alexander realized that rain was plentiful miles away in the rainforests on the windward slopes of Haleakalā mountain. Thus, he designed a 17-mile (27 km) long irrigation aqueduct that diverted water from that part of Haleakalā to their plantation . Work started on

546-652: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Lurline&oldid=902119929 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata All set index articles Matson Navigation Company William Matson (1849–1917) founded Matson Navigation Company. He

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572-592: The state. Alexander & Baldwin has its headquarters in downtown Honolulu at the Alexander & Baldwin Building, which was built in 1929. The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum exhibits some of sugarcane company's history. In 1831, Dwight Baldwin (1798–1886) and Charlotte Fowler Baldwin were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as medical missionaries to

598-582: The sugar operation became wholly owned by Alexander & Baldwin. In 1964, the company also bought out the interests in Matson Navigation Company held by three of its fellow "Big Five" competitors: American Factors , C. Brewer & Co. , and Castle & Cooke . In 1969, the company purchased all remaining, outstanding shares in Matson and the shipping company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin. In recent decades,

624-444: The use of pre-harvest field burning by its subsidiary Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company. HC&S had cultivated up to 35,000 acres of sugarcane on Maui, with roughly 400 acres per week being burned from March to November each year to remove dried leaves from the cane before it is harvested and processed. A spokesman for HC&S claimed that "burning, in the field, is the only economical means HC&S has found to-date of removing

650-800: Was born in Lysekil in Västra Götaland County , Sweden , and orphaned during childhood. He arrived in San Francisco after a trip around Cape Horn in 1867. Working aboard the Dickel family yacht, he struck up a friendship with tycoon Claus Spreckels , who financed many of Matson's new ships. In 1882, he sailed his three-masted schooner Emma Claudina into the Hilo Bay of the Hawaiian Islands . The enterprise began in

676-712: Was spun off as the independent Matson, Inc. company with its headquarters moving from Oakland, California to Honolulu. On January 6, 2016 Alexander & Baldwin announced plans to transition out of sugar farming on Maui, discontinuing the Maui Sugar brand and ceasing production of sugar at the last remaining plantation on the Hawaiian islands. The company's last sugar mill closed in December of that year. Before ceasing sugar production in 2016, Alexander & Baldwin had drawn repeated criticism from Maui residents over

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