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| Most goods come to Hawaii by ship " William Matson (1849–1917) was the founder of the Matson Navigation Company. He was born in Lysekil in Västra Götaland County, Sweden, and orphaned during childhood. He arrived in San Francisco after a trip around Cape Horn in 1867. Working aboard the Spreckels family yacht, he struck up a friendship with sugar tycoonClaus Spreckels, who financed many of Matson's new ships. In 1882 the three masted schoonerEmma Claudina ran to the Hawaiian Islands. The enterprise began in the carrying of merchandise, especially of plantation stores, to the islands and returning with cargoes of sugar. " Wikipedia LINK |
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| Click photo to see the cars aft. Those tiny boxes amidships tower over one's car as trucks take them about our highways. " Matson is credited with introducing mass tourism to Hawaii with the opening of the historic Moana Hotel (March 11, 1901 now known as the Moana Surfrider Hotel) and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki on the island of Oahu. " Wikipedia |
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| CLICK TO ENLARGE Tiny Barge! |
Barges like this one,
towed by great oceangoing tugs,
take goods from Honolulu Harbor
to the neighbor islands
Many shipping lines call at Honolulu
" The sincere friends of this world
are as ship lights
in the stormiest of nights. "
Giotto di Bondone
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| Do click on photo to see aircraft on the runway behind ship |
" Four hoarse blasts
of a ship's whistle
still raise the hair
on my neck
and set my feet
to tapping. "
John Steinbeck
Aircraft,
like this jumbo military fellow,
bring people,
and time-sensitive supplies.
Hawaiian Airlines is regularly
the most on-time airline
in America!
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Thanks for visiting!
Warmly, cloudia
Hawaiian Airlines is regularly
the most on-time airline
in America!
' Take Peace & Smiles - Leave Your Comment '
Thanks for visiting!
Warmly, cloudia
16 comments:
from such humble beginnings...and yet look what he did...smiles.
aloha..
sorry have not slept tonight
ao running on fumes...smiles.
Steinbeck's quote is great! Nicely Cloudia!
Hank
I cannot imagine myself living on an island in the Pacific, Cloudia, so far from the mainland. But I have never been to Hawaii so don't have an accurate idea of what it's really like there where just about everything is taken there on ships. Perhaps it's not all that different from Ontario as most of what we have here is also brought in from other places - not much of what I see in stores is actually from Ontario. Thanks for this post with much to ponder.
You posted some marvelous pictures of ships.
Ships are a sight that should gladden the heart.
I'd like to go asea in the Pacific. Especially about now.
I'm with Stienbeck on this one.
Thank you for this ship-full post! I do love the back story to them all. We enjoy a bit of ship history in Duluth and do it when possible. They have a list that comes out for each ship coming to shore, and we'd grab a sheet (in season of course) and sit in the revolving restaurant and watch them glide in! What fun it is.
Thank you for this ship-full post! I do love the back story to them all. We enjoy a bit of ship history in Duluth and do it when possible. They have a list that comes out for each ship coming to shore, and we'd grab a sheet (in season of course) and sit in the revolving restaurant and watch them glide in! What fun it is.
thank goodness for transport.
When we were there it was was mentioned that there was a five day supply of fuel on hand for the power plants at any one time. I hope they have increased that supply by now. Five days is not a long time.
Long before planes there have always been ships... Love to see photos of the old sailing ships.. Happy weekend Cloudia.
I've made it out to the islands twice.
On the 2nd trip back (it seems so much longer coming back, against the time zones), a baby cried the entire flight.
"How could this be possible," my sister and I wondered.
As we were getting off the plane, we heard someone say, "As soon as one would go to sleep, the other would wake up and start crying."
TWINS!
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It's pretty amazing how these islands, so far from everything get supplies. Now I know. Can't wait to go back.
Da barge doesn't look so little for interisland transport of important stuff. Thanks for the history. I remember driving past all of those Matson boxes at Kauai's port to find the menehune fish ponds. DrumMajor
Thanks!!!
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