SS Mauna Loa
SS West Conob shortly after completion in 1919. She was renamed Mauna Loa in 1934.
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| Namesake: | Mauna Loa |
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| Yard number: | 14 |
| Completed: | May 1919 |
| Identification: | US Official number: 218048 |
| Fate: | bombed and sunk 19 February 1942 in the Bombing of Darwin |
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| Type: | Design 1013 ship |
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| Beam: | 54 ft 6 in (16.61 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h) |
SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of Matson Navigation Company that was sunk in the bombing of Darwin in February 1942. She was christened SS West Conob in 1919 and renamed SS Golden Eagle in 1928. At the time of her completion in 1919, the ship was inspected by the United States Navy for possible use as USS West Conob (ID-4033) but was neither taken into the Navy nor ever commissioned.
West Conob was built in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), part of the West series of ships—steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the World War I war effort—and was the 14th ship built at Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in San Pedro, California. She initially sailed for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and circumnavigated the globe twice by 1921. She began sailing to South America for Swayne & Hoyt Lines in 1925, and then, to Australia and New Zealand. When Swayne & Hoyt's operation was taken over by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company a few years later, she sailed under the name Golden Eagle until 1934, when she was taken over by the Matson Navigation Company for service between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland and renamed Mauna Loa, after the large shield volcano on the Island of Hawaii.
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