SS Aloha State major corporate reorganization, sold the ship to States Marine Lines in 1960. They renamed the ship "Aloha State", and it served as an international cargo ship until 1971. It was scrapped sometime between August 21 and 31, 1971, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. SS Aloha State SS "Aloha State, known in World War II as SS "Sea Snipe, was a Type C3-S-A2 transport ship that served during World War II. After the war, it served as a civilian transport ship for 24 years, until it was scrapped in August 1971. "Aloha State" was laid down on August 8, 1942 as "Sea Snipe"
Aloha of examples dating back as far as 1798 and up to 1978 where it was defined as a substitute for "welcome". The modern, common use epitomizes the appropriation of the Hawaiian Language and the cultural dispossession of Native Hawaiians. Lorrin Andrews wrote the first Hawaiian dictionary, called "A dictionary of the Hawaiian language". In it he describes "aloha" as "A word expressing different feelings; love, affection, gratitude, kindness, pity, compassion, grief, the modern common salutation at meeting; parting". Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Hoyt Elbert's "Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian" also contains a similar definition. The modern use as a greeting