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Burns Steamship Company
IndustryShipping
FoundedFebruary 25, 1936 (February 25, 1936) in Los Angeles, United States
Defunct1956
Key people
Leroy Burns
SS Caddopeak - Lurline Burns, sister ship SS Point Bonita

Burns Steamship Company was a shipping company founded in Los Angeles, California on February 25, 1936 by Leroy Burns. Burns Steamship Company had offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Leroy Burns was in the lumber business in Ohio in 1937, before he moved to San Francisco. In San Francisco he purchased the ship SS Caddopeak , his first ship, he renamed her the Lurline Burns. In 1940 he moved to Los Angeles with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California]. Burns Steamship Company's ship the SS Lurline Burns was taken over for the World War II effort. Burns Steamship Company closed in 1956.[1][2]

  1. ^ The Liberty Ships of World War II, By Greg H. Williams, page 255
  2. ^ "Pacific marine review". San Francisco, Calif. : J.S. Hines – via Internet Archive.

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