The Thomas Lynch, another candidate for the Rustbucket Hall of Fame, was built in 1955 as Sooner Mariner. The Pacific Far East Line bought the ship the same year and renamed it Korean Bear. PFEL eventually changed the name to Korea Bear under which name I saw the ship in 1967 at San Francisco. The ship was acquired by the Waterman Steamship Corporation in 1973 and renamed Thomas Lynch for Thomas Lynch Jr, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence representing the state of South Carolina. When I saw the Thomas Lynch in May 1980 Waterman was not expending much on maintenance and the ship looked much as it does in the drawing (unlike the Korea Bear which was immaculate). The Thomas Lynch was sold for scrap in 1980 which presumably explains the shoddy appearance. Thomas Lynch the man was born in 1749 and died when the ship he was aboard was lost at sea without a trace in 1779.