Commercial Service
The ship was sold to Standard Fruit Company of New Orleans where they were gutted to hulls then fitted two new deck houses, electrical plant and other ship service plants and with dual 750 hp. Ingersoll-Rand Diesel engines by Todd Dry Dock and Construction Company. With the new name Matagalpa and four holds capable of carrying a total of 25,000 banana stems between Central America and New Orleans the Standard Fruit & Steamship Company operated banana boat operated until the eve of World War II. The ship was surveyed and taken by Navy under a bare boat charter until the urgent need to resupply the Philippines as Japanese forces took Manila resulted in their being taken over by the United States Army.
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