SS Marama

History
New Zealand
Name: SS Marama
Owner: Union Company, Dunedin
Port of registry: Wellington
Route: New Zealand — Australia & Trans-Pacific
Builder: Caird & Company, Greenock
Cost: £166,000
Yard number: 313
Launched: 1907
In service: November 1907
Out of service: 1937
Identification: Official number: 117,597
Fate: Broken up,
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage:
Length: 420 ft (130 m)
Beam: 53.2 ft (16.2 m)
Depth: 31.2 ft (9.5 m)
Speed: 17 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
Crew: 140

The SS Marama was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand from 1907 to 1937. She was a hospital ship in WWI.

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

She was sold to Shanghai shipbreakers in 1937, then resold to Kobe shipbreakers and was broken up at their Osaka shipyard in 1938.

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