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Mary made significant progress in the office. After thirteen trips to the file cabinet and fourteen to the trash, her chair is now visible. The desk, not so much!!
We received an email from our dear neighbor, Jeff, who included an image of an oil painting of Linda’s front yard (our neighbor), created by a local neighbor. It was beautiful.
Mary will be taking acrylic painting classes in the near future!
We worked around the office and finally decided to try the pool, but alas, it was still in the high 70s, so we came back inside the house. We plan to look on Amazon for some updated swimsuits.
The weather was warm, with the outside temperature in the mid-80s all day, so we stayed inside and watched the ending of The Blacklist. We got Vicky started, and when she called, she was on episode 4. We told her we were finishing episode 288.
Mary went “shopping (or chopping) in the garden and brought back dinner! Mary makes a mean salad! We had a delicious dinner, and to add to that, Mary made cookies for Jeff, so the house smelled great!
We watched a new series called FUBAR, and it was funny. We finally crashed around 10:00 pm, but before I went to sleep, I looked at some OLD photos circa 1955 and found one of my cousin Claudia and me (with Mom and Dad) seeing Dad off to his Hawaiian vacation on the good ship SS Hawaiian Pilot.
Mom would not travel, planes scared her, and she got seasick easily. Dad wanted to travel, so he found a freighter that went back and forth to Hawaii, part of the Matson Lines.
The image was colorized using the latest AI software.
The construction of the so-called C-3 cargo vessels began during World War II, after the famous “Liberty” and “Victory” ships. This standardized type of ship overtook all other boats as it was more modern, longer, and could also reach a higher speed. After the Second World War, these ships were converted into ordinary freighters and sold to various shipping companies.
The Hawaiian Pilot was built in 1944 and entered service at that time. After the war ended, it was acquired and refitted by the Matson Navigation Company and mainly traveled the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Hawaii routes. The cargo consisted of a wide range of everyday consumer goods and agricultural products, primarily destined for the West Coast of the United States. The vessel had a cruising speed of 16.5 knots and a total cargo capacity of 12,500 tons.
On 15 March 1946, she departed the West Coast for Norfolk, Virginia, where she arrived in April. She was decommissioned on 11 June 1946 and returned to the Maritime Commission the following day.
On June 26, 1947, she was sold to the Matson Navigation Company and renamed SS Hawaiian Pilot. On 14 July 1953, the Hawaiian Pilot collided with another C3 ship, the SS Jacob Luckenbach, off San Francisco in fog; the Jacob Luckenbach sank, but the Hawaiian Pilot saved the entire crew. The damage to her bow was repaired.
She was again sold on May 8, 1961, to Oceanic Steamship Company, a Matson subsidiary, and was renamed SS Sonoma. On 21 January 1971, the ship was sold to Far East Line Inc. and was finally sold to Excelsior Marine Corporation on 17 March 1972, at which point she was renamed SS Noma. She was sold for scrap in 1973.
I finally hit the sack at 10:20 p.m. and fell asleep immediately. It was a long day of doing nothing!!
