Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan harin da aka kai wa Pearl Harbor, ita, tare da sauran jiragen ruwan fasinjojin Matson "Lurline", "Matsonia", "Mariposa" da "Monterey", da jiragen ruwa 33 na Matson, Hukumar Kula da Jiragen Ruwa ta Amurka ta tilasta su shiga aikin soja. Amurka ta ba da "Manoa" ga Tarayyar Soviet a 1943 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Shirin Ba da Lamuni. Sun sake masa suna "Balkhash" (lambar Soviet M-11744), don maye gurbin jirgi mai suna iri ɗaya wanda sojojin saman Jamus suka nutsar yayin kwashewa
daga Tallinn, Estonia. Aƙalla sau biyu Soviets sun yi amfani da shi a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II don jigilar fursunonin Estonia zuwa Gulag.