Here's an Oldie - - The old Pyro President Liner.

Sounds like a fun project TB

Well;

      I believe it will be. The thing is, with this kit a Dremel will come in handy. The Hull halves are so thick forward and aft they look like there's four ships stacked inside one another ! Yeah, really!

     The one half on the Pyro ship was so thick( the port side) that it had to be sanded on both  the inner and outer sides to match up. What I do many times is start my build dry. That is, No glue ! The reason. Well it allows me to get a handle on how and why the changes are going to affect the actual kit!

    Sometimes we think about a change , But forget about what we are dealing with as far as the kit's ability to conform where it's used parts are concerned. In ships this size that is not something to be forgotten.

Troop ship possible too.

Why "G";

 You read my mind again. Since I posted this I acquired a Glue Bomb as well. Salvageable though!

This ship was originally started as an Admiral Benson class P2 transport. While there are a lot of differences, the model is inaccurate of it's origins anyways, so chop away.

You Know,Bill;

  I have wondered a lot. You know I was crew on the Matson Lines " Lurline" ( The West Coast ( California) Ports to Hawaii Triangle run. As an officer I lived topside of course. What always impressed me was such a compact little ship( By my later ship's sizes) as she was, she sailed so well. She seemed made to do her job well, But, With, Possibly a hidden agenda.

 I believe she may have been built to those specifications. I don't remember. 

Lurline, Mariposa, Malolo and Monterey were designed by Gibbs and Cox as luxury liners. They did transport service during WW2. That Co. was famous for many great ship designs, including the Fletcher Class DDs.

That'd be a reasonable conversion. I've looked at it too. I could only see using the hull. The APL ship has a lot more deck forward, assume more holds. She also didn't have nearly the lovely shear on the Matson ships. And unfortunately the kit has about zero. 

But anything is possible.

Ah!

     .Oh , you are so right.That beautiful shear was part of their very shipshape and romantic look as well. I think that was part of their Mystique. They looked beautiful standing still!!

    I saw a similar vessel in Kaoshiung when in the far east and she had a very flattened shear. Didn't have that Mystique about her and the hull was black as well.

    Great! I have figured out how to get that "Matson Shear" so well known From Gibbs and Cox. By laying a set of plans from an old S.S.United States over the side of this ship with an equal distance between Bow and stern and using carbon Paper under it and drawing right on the Hull, it's working!

     It's surprisingly not that far off. About three scale foot difference dead amidships! Now, the other thing is the stern. Nobody ever seems to get these right, Ever! The Spooned shape,while very minimal is not present on these ships. The upper two decks at the stern. Main and Just below, rolled forward up to the rail about six to eight feet!