The Los Angeles Steamship Company was a passenger and
freight shipping company based in Los Angeles, California. The company, formed
in 1920, initially provided fast passenger service between Los Angeles and San
Francisco. In 1921, LASSCO added service to Hawaii in competition with the San
Francisco-based Matson Navigation Company using two former North German Lloyd ocean
liners that had been in U.S. Navy service during World War I. Despite the
sinking of one of the former German liners on her maiden voyage for the
company, business in the booming 1920s thrived, and the company continued to
add ships and services. In 1922, the City of Los Angeles, a renamed and
refitted liner was one of the largest American ships sailing in Pacific waters.
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