SS Matsonia
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Originally built as the SS Malolo, she was substantially rebuilt and renamed SS Matsonia. She continued to voyage from the US west coast to Hawaii until requisitioned by the US Navy on 21 Nov 1941 for service as a troop ship. For the remainder of the war she trooped around the Pacific, making many calls to Australian ports carrying US Military personnel, and Australian Air Force personnel (later voyages with war brides) in the opposite direction.
The ship was returned to the Matson Line in April 1946 and underwent a massive refit in order to return to passenger service on the Hawaiian route. She was sold in April 1948 to the Italian Home Line and renamed SS Atlantic, and later SS Queen Frederica. Extensively refitted in 1960, she had been transferred in 1954 to the National Hellenic American Line.