States Steamship Company, also called States Line and SSS, was started in 1928 by Charles Dant, in Portland, Oregon and later moved to the headquarters to San Francisco. Dant started the States Steamship Company to take his lumber product to market. He had a fleet of lumber schooners. Dant started by leasing ships from the United States Shipping Board - Emergency Fleet Corporation and founded the Columbia Pacific Steamship Company in 1919, Columbia Pacific Steamship Company routes were between Portland, Far East and Europe. In 1928 Dant merged the Columbia Pacific Steamship Company into the States Steamship Company. The Europe route ended in 1932 and the ship moved to a Philippines route. With the shift to 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.Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast, By E. Mowbray TateMaritime 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

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 charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration for World War II. Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company also operated charter shipping for the 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 The swastikas painted on the funnels have been replaced by a white sun cross on a blue background.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.crwflags.com States Steamship Company flag

States Steamship Company ships

States Steamship Company ports: San Francisco, Portland, Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila Taiwan, Saigon, Bangkok, Okinawa .

SS General Lee, passenger from United Fruit in 1932 SS General Pershing, passenger from United Fruit in 1932 SS General Sherman, passenger from United Fruit in 1932 SS Hakozaki Maru SS Terukuni Maru SS Haruna Maru SS Katori Maru SS Yasukuni Maru SS Hakone Maru SS Fushimi Maru SS Kaisar-I-Hind SS Chitral SS Ranpura SS Corfu SS Ranchi SS Naldera SS Carthage SS San Clemente SS San Rafael SS Flomar (1919) SS President Monroe SS President Van Buren SS President Polk SS President Adams SS President Hayes SS President Wilson SS President Garfield SS Gneisenau SS Potsdam SS Scharnhorst SS Ramses SS Christiaan Huygens SS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt SS Johan de Witt SS Marnix van St. Aldegonde SS Colorado SS Montana SS Idaho SS Nevada, sank SS Wyoming SS Michigan, sank off Philippines in storm. SS California (1961) Empire State VI SS Hawaii SS M.M. Dant SS Arizona SS Pennsylvania (1944) SS Illinois, June 1, 1942 torpedoed SS Oregon, Feb. 28, 1942 shelled by submarine SS "Ohio", Unknown SS C.E. Dant SS Washington (1941) SS San Angela San Felipe (1919)

Quaker Line and California Eastern Line Quaker Line and California Eastern ships:timetableimages.com Quaker Line 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.Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum Quaker Line, SS Laruel

Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company

Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company Chartered ships:

Victory ships Alma Victory Billings Victory SS Boise Victory SS Davidson Victory SS Drew Victory SS Lewiston Victory SS Middlesex Victory SS Paducah Victory SS Wellesley Victory SS Saginaw Victory SS Iran Victory SS Colgate Victory SS Nampa Victory

Liberty ships SS Alan Seeger SS Jose Pedro Varela SS Felix Riesenberg SS Allen C. Balch SS Robert G. Harper SS Felix Riesenberg (also to States Line) SS William Allen White SS William Sproule SS J. D. Ross SS Star of Oregon, Torpedoed and sunk by U-162 off Trinidad SS Jack London SS James Devereaux SS Nathaniel Hawthorne, was torpedoed on Nov. 7, 1942 SS Henry Adams SS Lucien La Baudt SS Henry Bacon, Torpedoed and sunk by aircraft in Barents Sea 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 SS Mission Solano

Type C1 ship SS Rose Knot (post war)

See also World War II United States Merchant Navy Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation

External links Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II

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