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TAMAROA / SOPHOCLES

BUILT IN 1922 BY HARLAND AND WOLFF IN BELFAST FOR THE ABERDEEN LINE AS THE 'SOPHOCLES' , SHE WAS A VESSEL OF 12,341 TONS, WITH A SERVICE SPEED OF 13 1/2 KNOTS.

HER MAIDEN VOYAGE WAS FROM LONDON TO SYDNEY & BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 

 SHE WAS CHARTERED BY SHAW SAVILL & ALBION LINE IN  1926 AND RE-NAMED ' TAMAROA '.

 AT THIS TIME SHE HAD HER ENGINES  CONVERTED TO BURN OIL, AND WAS USED ON THE SOUTHAMPTON / PANAMA / WELLINGTON  RUN. 

 IN 1932 SHE CAME UNDER SHAW SAVILL & ALBION OWNERSHIP WHEN THE ABERDEEN LINE WAS TAKEN OVER.

SHE WAS USED AS A TROOP SHIP IN 1940.

SHE DID NOT RETURN TO HER CIVILIAN ROLE UNTIL 1948, WHEN SHE RESUMED HER LONDON / PANAMA / WELLINGTON ROUTE. AT THIS TIME SHE HAD ACCOMMODATION FOR 372 TOURIST CLASS PASSENGERS. NOT A PARTICULARLY POPULAR SHIP, SHE WAS THE SISTER SHIP TO 'MATAROA'.

SHE WAS SCRAPPED AT BLYTH IN 1957.

 

 

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