Mezue ahịrịokwu a: N'ọnwa Nọvemba afọ 1939, "Pan Royal" so n'ụgbọ mmiri iri abụọ na otu a kwụsịrị ịrụ ọrụ n'ihi na puku ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri ise na-arụ ọrụ n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri dị na Niu Yọk gbara arụkwaghịm. N'ọnwa June nke afọ na-eso ya, "The Christian Science Monitor" kọrọ na "Pan Royal" ekwela nkwa ịlaghachi "Big Joe" na Soviet Union. "Nnukwu Joe" bụ utu aha e nyere onye ọrụ Soviet nke na-ejide kpakpando na-acha ọbara ọbara n'aka ya gbatịrị agbatị. Ihe oyiyi ahụ nọchiri ogidi dị n'ihu Ụlọ Nzukọ Soviet Socialist Republics n'Ebe Ngosi Ihe Nkà Ụwa nke New York n'oge ngosi ihe ngosi nke afọ 1939. E wepụrụ ụlọ ntu Soviet tupu oge ngosi nke 1940 mgbe echiche ọha na eze America tụgharịrị megide Soviet Union n'ihi November 1939 ya
mwakpo a wakporo Finland. Dị ka akụkụ nke dismantling, "Big Joe" e warehoused na Hoboken, New Jersey, ma gbochie si mbupụ site na United States Maritime Commission na-achị na-eme ka a "omume mmachibido iwu" nke machibidoro iwu nke American ụgbọ mmiri na nnọchite nke Soviet Union.