.png) Matsonia in commercial service
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| Name | SS Matsonia |
| Owner | Matson Navigation Company |
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| Launched | 1913 |
| Fate | acquired by U.S. Navy, 22 January 1918 |
.jpg) Arriving in New York Harbor at the end of a voyage from Europe, 1919 with troops
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| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Matsonia (ID-1589) |
| Acquired | 22 January 1918 |
| Commissioned | 1 March 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 12 September 1919 |
| Fate | returned to her former owner, 17 September 1919 |
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| Fate | chartered to the United States Army, August 1940 |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USAT Matsonia |
| Acquired | August 1940 |
| In service | August 1940 |
| Out of service | 28 April 1946 |
| Fate | transferred to James River Reserve Fleet, 28 April 1946; scrapped, 1957 |
| General characteristics (as USS Matsonia, 1918–1919) | |
| Displacement | 16,800 tons (normal) |
| Length | 501 ft 4 in (152.81 m) |
| Beam | 58 ft 1 in (17.70 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) (mean) |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
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USS Matsonia (ID-1589) was a troopship used by the United States Navy during World War I. Before and after her Navy service she was ocean liner SS Matsonia for the Matson Navigation Company. The liner was sold in 1937 to the Alaska Packers Association and renamed SS Etolin. Shortly before World War II, the ship was chartered by the United States Army as USAT Etolin. Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in 1946, Etolin was placed in the James River Reserve Fleet and ultimately scrapped in 1957.