Pacific Steamship Company

This article is about the shipping company in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska. For the shipping company chartered in New York state, see Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
The Pacific Steamship Company ship Wenatchee in Seattle Harbor

The Pacific Steamship Company was a US freight and passenger shipping company that operated between 1916 and 1936. The company was formed by the merger of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and the Pacific-Alaska Navigation Company and was a direct competitor to the Alaska Steamship Company in the Alaska-Seattle shipping business.[1] Pacific Steamship Co. owned and operated The Admiral Line and The Admiral Oriental Line. American Mail Line worked with the Admiral Oriental Line.[2]

  1. ^ Information Annual 1916, Cumulative Digest Corporation, New York. 1917. p. 429
  2. ^ Pacific Coast Steamship Companies Collection (H.Mss.1043), Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, California.]