Edward Hallin certificate and menu, Oct. 29, 1940 and April 13, 1941.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (Calif.). Historic Documents Dept.

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President Polk (Steamship)

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President Garfield (Steamship)

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Hallin, Edward.

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Edward Hallin was born June 26, 1919 and passed away October 30, 2008. He was the son of Captain Edward Hallin and was employed by American President Lines (APL) starting on August 22, 1939, and served in the Purser's Department aboard their vessels from August 30, 1940 to June 26, 1942, when he was called to duty as a flying cadet for the Army Air Corps. He made three world cruises and shorter cruises. Edward's son, Gary Hallin, states that his father worked on the President Taylor, President G...

American President Lines, Ltd.

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Agency History American President Lines, for many years the largest American shipping company in the Pacific, was formed in 1938 from the remnants of the Dollar Steamship Company. Organized in 1900, Dollar spent its first two decades in the transpacific trade as "essentially a tramp operator, whose main cargoes were bulk, low-value merchandise not suitable for the larger and faster passenger-cargo liners of the Pacific Mail Steamship Lines." ...