Containers:

Box 1, Box 3, Box 7, Box 10, Nitrate Storage

Identifier:

File Unit 07.

Dates:

1930-1933

Extent:

9 photographs (26 physical forms).

Scope and content:

Contains aerial photographs of the vessel underway in the Panama Canal and views on board the vessel on the occasion of raising the Naval Reserve flag in San Francisco, California.

Vessel History: The second American-Hawaiian vessel named ARIZONAN was built in 1920 by Sun Shipbuilding Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania, for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and named CONSHOHOCKEN. She was launched on January 31 and had a successful trial trip on March 19, 1920. In 1921, she was renamed WILLHILO and was part of the Williams Line fleet. She was purchased by American-Hawaiian in 1929 and renamed ARIZONAN. Captain Harold W. Dowling continued to command the vessel after she was renamed. In 1946, the vessel was renamed NORTUNA and she was scrapped in 1959. (Sources: http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/1major/inactive/sun.htm; American Shipping. New York, N. Y, 1920. Print. Page 60; Pruner, J. M. "History of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company by periods 1899 to 1936 inclusive: Williams Steamship Corporation and the Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Company." December 1929. April 1937 [SFMNHP, HE753 A38 pam])

Physical description:

7 nitrate negatives, 7 contact interpositives, 7 copy negatives, 5 black-and-white photographic prints

Contents

Access and use