Transport MOBILE
Contributed by Martin Cox
This is a view of the transport MOBILE.
She was originally a British liner. After the Spanish American War she
was retained by the Army and renamed U.S.A.T SHERMAN. In 1922 she was bought
by the Los Angeles Steamship
Company, and rebuilt as a cabin liner for the Los Angeles -Hawaii service.
The company renamed her the CALAWAII. She steamed sucessfully as the running
mate of CITY OF LOS ANGELES (the previously intended running mate, CITY
OF HONOLULU, sank on it's first voyage!) MOBILE was withdrawn and
broken up in Japan 1933
Martin Cox, Martime Matters Website
(http://maritimematters.com/)
