Specifications:

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
SS Maui
	83k	Undated post card		Randle M. Biddle
	71k	Photographed in 1917 in Matson Line colors, possibly while on trials U.S. Navy photo NH 102021		Naval Historical Center
	49k	Photographed prior to her World War I era Naval service departing San Francisco at the start of her maiden voyage to Honolulu on 7 April 1917 Naval Historical Center photo NH 99594		Robert Hurst
USS Maui (ID 1514)
	99k	Original photo: In port, 1919. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005. Naval Historical Center photo NH 102945 Replacement photo: Undated post card		Original photo: Robert Hurst Replacement photo: Tommy Trampp
	365k	c. 1919 Bordeaux, France Loading wounded U.S. Army Signal Corps photo courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine		Robert Hurst
	449k	10 January 1919 Bordeaux, France Loading wounded Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine
	79k	Off New York City with troops on board, 25 January 1919. Courtesy of the Caraway Company, Rutterford, New Jersey, 1936. U.S. Navy photo NH 60645		Naval Historical Center
	129k	Post card dated 13 July 1919 from York, PA		Tommy Trampp
SS Maui
	136k	Original photo: Greeted by local coin divers as she arrives at a Pacific Ocean port, circa the mid-1920s. Courtesy of Mrs. Donald Shull, 1976. U.S. Navy photo NH 85125 Replacement photo: From the July 1920 edition of Pacific Marine Review magazine at Archive.org		Original photo: Naval History and Heritage Command Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
	103k	Photographed on 15 November 1922. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1972. U.S. Navy photo NH 76071		Naval History and Heritage Command
	137k	Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right.USS Holland is at left, at the Submarine Base. Alongside her are submarines Sturgeon (SS-187), Spearfish (SS-190), Saury (SS-189), Seal (SS-183) and Sargo (SS-188). USS Niagara (PG-52) is alongside the wharf, ahead of Holland. Ships docked at the supply depot, upper center, are USS Oglala (CM-4) and the S.S. Maui. Among the ships at the piers in the extreme upper left are USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS San Francisco (CA-38) and USS Antares (AG-10). The two battleships moored by Ford Island, in upper right, are (left) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and (right) USS Arizona (BB-39) National Archives photo 80-G-451131		Naval Historical Center
USAT Maui
	90k	Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken while the ship was leaving port during World War II Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles U.S. Navy photo NH 99616		Naval Historical Center

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Commanding Officers
01	CAPT Clarence Arthur Abele, USN - USNA Class of 1898 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918)	1918
02	CAPT Charles Seymour Freeman, USN - USNA Class of 1900 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) and the Legion of Merit - Retired as Vice Admiral	1918
03	LCDR F. M. Edwards, USNRF	1918 - 1919

Courtesy Joe Radigan

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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships:

Maui

An island in the south-central Hawaiian group named for the chief mythological hero of the Polynesians. Maui is credited with snaring the sun, controlling the winds, introducing fire, and fishing up the eastern Pacific island group from the sea.

The first Maui, a troop transport, was built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif., in 1917; acquired by the Navy from the Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco, 6 March 1918 ; and commissioned the same day.

Assigned to transatlantic duty, Maui served with the Cruiser and Transport Force through World War I, carrying troops to France and returning from Europe with passengers and the sick and wounded, Following the Armistice. she decommissioned and was returned to her owner.

During World War II Maui operated under the Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army, from 1942 into 1943 before she was turned over to the Maritime Administration for disposal by 1945.

(Addendum to DANFS): Maui, a 9730-ton (gross) passenger steamship, was built in 1917 at San Francisco, California. After less than a year's service on her intended route between the U.S. west coast and Hawaii she was taken over by the Navy in March 1918 and commissioned as USS Maui (ID 1514). Returned to her owners in September 1919, she resumed her eastern Pacific voyages, as an important part of Hawaii's link to the U.S. mainland. The depressed economic conditions of the 1930s caused her to be laid up at San Francisco, California, in 1933. A year later she was converted to a freighter.

In November 1941, Maui suffered a collision in San Francisco Bay and a month later was purchased by the U.S. Army became the USAT Maui. She began Army transport work late in 1941 with a trip to Honolulu, and continued operations in the Pacific through World War II. In addition to voyages to Hawaii, she carried personnel and cargo to Alaska, the south and southwest Pacific, the Philippines and Japan. Maui completed this work in early 1946 and was laid up in mid-year at Olympia, Washington. She was scrapped in 1948.

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