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Specifications: Displacement 9,730 t.; Length 501'; Beam 58'; Draft 30' 2"; Speed 18 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament two 1-pounders and two
machine guns.
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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