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"To slip smoothly down through six days of delicious rest and languor is fit preparation for entering into the presence of this queen of the sundown sea."
-- Mabel Clare Craft, 1899, on traveling to Hawaii
Hawaii by Luxury Liner
By the 1880s, you could travel from San Francisco to Honolulu on regularly scheduled steamships. By the 1920s, you could do so in luxury on those of a company famous for serving Hawaii.
Matson Navigation Company met and fostered the growing interest in visiting Hawaii by introducing ever larger, faster, and more modern passenger liners. Matson's splendid "white ships" soon became Hawaiian icons. |