Burns Steamship Company

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 1940 he moved to Los Angeles with headquarters in Beverly Hills, California.

[1][2] Burns Steamship Company operated a fleet of ships that were used to help the World War II effort.

The ship was run by its Burns Steamship Company and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.