Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Martin, Herbert Thomas March 20, 1886 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HERBERT THOMAS MARTIN, Port Captain, Inter-Island S. N. Co. Following the sea 
since he was fourteen years old, Captain Herbert T. Martin, port captain of 
the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., has served in every capacity from 
apprentice to master.
  In 1900 Captain Martin signed to serve his apprenticeship on the four-masted 
bark “Neotisfield,” running from London to Australia. His apprentice period 
over, he then joined the Canadian Pacific Company, and for two years was 
quartermaster on a run from Montreal to Liverpool. The company transferred him 
to the Pacific, where he was in the Vancouver-to-Orient service aboard 
the “Empress of China” for a few months before going to Seattle in 1906 to 
join the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. For one year he sailed between San 
Francisco and Alaska as quartermaster, and in 1907 became a member of the 
coast and geodetic survey service, and spent five years on the “U. S. S. 
MacArthur” and “U. S. S. Patterson” in various posts from sailor to boatswain. 
He became a naturalized American citizen while in the government service.
  For a short time Captain Martin was second mate on a Pacific Coast Steamship 
Co. vessel running from Seattle northward. From 1912 to 1914 he was a second 
mate on the U. S. lighthouse service steamer “Columbine,” which was employed 
in building lighthouses and establishing buoys in the previously unmarked 
channels of the famous “inside passage” to Southwestern Alaska. In 1915 
Captain Martin was transferred to San Francisco, and shortly thereafter came 
to Honolulu as chief mate on the “Columbine.” During the year 1918 he was 
acting master of the “Columbine” and the “Kukui,” and in the same year he 
resigned from the government service to become assistant harbor master and 
substitute plot for the port of Honolulu. He remained in that post for five 
years, when he was promoted on Aug. 1, 1923, to harbor master and pilot. In 
Sept., 1924, he resigned to assume his present position as port captain for 
the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.
  Born in London, England, March 20, 1886, Captain Martin is the son of George 
and Elizabeth (Freeman) Martin. He attended the public schools of London. In 
1917 he married Helen Siebert of Honolulu, and they have one son, Herbert 
William Martin. Captain Martin is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner.


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