SS Marama serving as a hospital ship, 1915
History
New Zealand
NameSS Marama
OwnerUnion Company, Dunedin
Port of registryWellington
RouteNew Zealand — Australia & Trans-Pacific
BuilderCaird & Company, Greenock
Cost£166,000
Yard number313
Launched1907
In serviceNovember 1907
Out of service1937
IdentificationOfficial number: 117,597
FateBroken up,
General characteristics
TypeOcean liner
Tonnage
Length420 ft (130 m)
Beam53.2 ft (16.2 m)
Depth31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Speed17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Capacity
  • 488 passengers:
  • 270 later 242 × 1st class
  • 120 later 214 × 2nd class
  • 98 later 32 × fore cabin or Interchange
Crew140

The SS Marama was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand from 1907 to 1937. It was a hospital ship in WWI as His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 2.

History

Built by Caird & Company at Greenock at a cost of £166,000 ($332,000), the SS Marama arrived at Port Chalmers in November 1907. It was the largest and most powerful ship (though not the fastest) in the USS Co fleet. Initially, it sailed on the Horseshoe run to Australia, and occasionally in trans-Pacific services. After war service, it was refitted (1920) for the trans-Pacific services to San Francisco or Vancouver. In 1925, it was converted to burn oil, and employed on the Tasman run.

The ship was sold to Shanghai shipbreakers the Linghua Dock & Engineering Works Ltd in 1937, then resold to Kobe shipbreakers Miyachi K.K.K. (who had also purchased the Maheno) and was broken up at their Osaka shipyard in 1938.

Marama Hall at the University of Otago is named after the liner, commemorating medical personnel who served aboard the two New Zealand hospital ships in World War I.[1]

See also

SS Maheno: sister ship; His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1.

Citations

  1. ↑ "Marama Hall". New Zealand Military Nursing. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

References


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