Maui, a 9730-ton (gross) passenger steamship, was built in 1917 at San Francisco, California. After less than a year's service on her intended route between the U.S. west coast and Hawaii she was taken over by the Navy in March 1918 and commissioned as USS Maui (ID # 1514). Returned to her owners in September 1919, she resumed her eastern Pacific voyages, as an important part of Hawaii's link to the U.S. mainland. The depressed economic conditions of the 1930s caused her to be laid up at San Francisco, California, in 1933. A year later she was converted to a freighter.
In November 1941, Maui suffered a collision in San Francisco
Bay and a month later was purchased by the U.S. Army became the
USAT Maui. She began Army transport work late in 1941 with
a trip to Honolulu, and continued operations in the Pacific through
World War II. In addition to voyages to Hawaii, she carried personnel
and cargo to Alaska, the south and southwest Pacific, the Philippines
and Japan. Maui completed this work in early 1946 and was
laid up in mid-year at Olympia, Washington. She was scrapped in
1948.
This page features and provides links to our only views of the passenger steamship Maui, which was USS Maui (ID 1514) during 1918-1919 and USAT Maui in 1941-1946.
For pictorial coverage of this ship while she was in U.S.
Navy service, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 102021 Maui (U.S. Passenger Steamship, 1917) Photographed in 1917 in Matson Line colors, possibly while on trials. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 6 March 1918 as USS Maui (ID # 1514). After World War I and post-war transport service, she was returned to her owner on 8 September 1919. The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 525 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 99594 S.S. Maui (American Passenger Steamship, 1917) Photographed prior to her World War I era Naval service. This ship served as USS Maui (ID # 1514) in 1918-1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 33KB; 740 x 225 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 76071 Maui (U.S. Passenger Steamship, 1917) Photographed on 15 November 1922. This ship served as USS Maui (ID # 1514) in 1918-19. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 550 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 85125 Maui (U.S. Passenger Steamship, 1917) Is greeted by local coin divers as she arrives at a Pacific Ocean port, circa the mid-1920s. Courtesy of Mrs. Donald Shull, 1976. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-451131 Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right. See Photo # 80-G-451131 (complete caption) for identification of some of the ships present. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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The following image shows Maui while she was serving as a U.S. Army Transport during World War II:
For pictorial coverage of this ship while she was in U.S.
Navy service, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 19 January 2002
New images added 6 October 2004