Armstrong v. Matson Navigation Co. Currie v. Matson Navigation Co. Stewart v. Matson Navigation Co.

These cases, consolidated on appeal, involve claims for war risk bonuses and maintenance for the periods in which appellants were interned on land by the Japanese Government during the recent war. Appellants were licensed and unlicensed crew members of the S. S. Malama. They sailed aboard that vessel on November 29, 1941, from San Francisco on a voyage described in the shipping articles as follows: “* * * from the port of San Francisco, California, to ports in the Philippine Islands by a route, including stops, as ordered by an agency or department of the United States Government and returning either eastbound or westbound via Cape of Good Hope as ordered by an agency or department of the United States Government, with a right to load or discharge at any intermediate ports, and back to a final Pacific Coast port of discharge and/or bunkering in the United States * * The vessel arrived in Honolulu on December 8, 1941, and sailed from Honolulu on December 16, 1941, on a route ordered by United States military and naval authorities. On January 1, 1942, while proceeding in the direction of New Zealand, the ship was attacked and sunk by Japanese planes. The crew were picked up by a…