On 5 March 1921 Hawkeye State, the largest combined passenger and cargo vessel of the USSB ever to put into a Pacific port, arrived in San Francisco to begin Matson Line service [REF].
Early on the morning of 11 December 1937, a much larger Dollar Lines ship, the ocean liner , ran aground in a typhoon on Kasho-to, east of Formosa [REF].