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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 August 1938Vol. IX, No. 1

Matson Changes

p. 58 · Read in the full issue

Honolulu, July 28.

THE Matson Navigation Company an nounces changes in the colours and names of 11 of its freighters employed in the Pacific.

Formerly red-brown the fleet will be given black hulls and white super-struc tures, trimmed in green and buff funnels, with blue stripes. Changes in the names are; “Golden Sun” to “Mokihana”; “Gen eral M. H. Sherman” to “Kaimoku”; “Golden Horn” to “Kainalu”; “Golden Cross” to “Kohala”; “Golden Club” to “Waimea”; “Golden Dragon” to “Mahi mahl”; “Golden Mountain” to “Olopana”; “Golden Kauri” to “Waipio”; “Constance Chandler” to “Liloa”; “Marion Otis Chan dler” to “Onomea”; and “Helen Whittier” to “Kalani”.