Dominion Monarch
1939
(Albatros AL-172)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 27,155 tons
- Dimensions: 682 x 85 x 34 ft.
- Machinery: Doxford diesels, quadruple screw, 32,000 bhp = 19.5 knots
- Passengers: 517 (all first class)
- Crew: 385
- Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle, England, 1939
- Service: Built for Shaw Savill & Albion, Southampton. Maiden voyage Southampton-Wellington 17 Feb 1939. England-Australia-New Zealand service via South Africa. Used as a troopship from Aug 1940. Started refit for passenger service Jul 1947, reentering London-Wellington in late 1948. Became a hotel ship at Seattle for the 1962 World's Fair. Sold to Japanese scrappers later that year; renamed Dominion Monarch Maru for final voyage to Osaka breakers.
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