Type C7 ship

Under the Jones Act, domestic US maritime trade is restricted to US-built and flagged vessels of US owners and crewed by predominantly US-citizens.

In October 2014 the last active '68 series Lancer Horizon Discovery, was delivered to the Bay Bridge Scrapyard in Brownsville, Texas.

Her keel was laid exactly 47 years ago on 10/26/1967..It has been an honor taking this grand ole girl to her final resting place.

- Captain Bill Boyce [5] Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Shipyard constructed two C7-S-88a container ships for San Francisco, California–based Pacific Far East Line (PFEL).

[13] Their service life came in a full circle when Matson, who had initially designed the ships decades earlier, acquired Horizon Lines in 2015.

[17] Their service time with the States Line however was brief as high fuel prices and competition drove the company into bankruptcy in 1979.

[20][21] In 1984-1985 all three were converted to pre-positioning supply ships for the US Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, CA.

[22] The ships gained 157 feet amidships, a helicopter landing platform, and cranes to enable them to unload their own cargo.