SS Marama
{{Short description|Ocean liner}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Hospital Ship Marama off Sinclair Head.jpeg |Ship caption=SS Marama serving as a hospital ship, 1915 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country= New Zealand |Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name= SS Marama |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= Union Company, Dunedin |Ship operator= |Ship registry=Wellington |Ship route=New Zealand — Australia & Trans-Pacific |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Caird & Company, Greenock |Ship original cost= £166,000 |Ship yard number= 313 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= 1907 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship in service= November 1907 |Ship out of service= 1937 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification=Official number: 117,597 |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship fate=Broken up, |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Ocean liner |Ship tonnage=*{{GRT|6,437}}
|Ship displacement= |Ship length= {{Convert|420|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{Convert|53.2|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship depth= {{Convert|31.2|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed= {{Convert|17|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity=* 488 passengers:
|Ship crew= 140 |Ship armour= |Ship notes= }} |
SS Marama was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand from 1907 to 1937. She was a hospital ship in World War I as His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 2.
History
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Built by Caird & Company at Greenock at a cost of £166,000 ($332,000), Marama 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 transpacific services. During World War I, she was outfitted as a hospital ship and renamed His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 2. and given the prefix HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship).
After war service, Marma was refitted in 1920 for the transpacific services to San Francisco or Vancouver. In 1925, she was converted to burn oil, and was employed on the Tasman run.
The ship was sold to Shanghai shipbreakers of the Linghua Dock & Engineering Works, Ltd. in 1937, then resold to Kobe shipbreakers Miyachi K.K.K. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nzans.org/NZANS%20History/Marama%20Hall.html |title=Marama Hall |website=New Zealand Military Nursing|access-date=2019-10-02}}
See also
:SS Maheno - sister ship; His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1.
Citations
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==References==
- {{cite book |last= McLean |first= Gavin |title= The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships |year= 2013 |publisher= New Zealand Ship and Marine Society |location= Wellington |isbn= 978-0-473-24977-9 |pages= 100, 185 }}
- {{cite book |last= McLauchlan |first= Gordon |title= The Line that Dared: A history of the Union Steam Ship Company 1875-1975 |year= 1987 |publisher= Four Star Books |location= Auckland |isbn= 0-9597853-0-2 |pages= 52, 53 }}
- {{cite web|url= http://www.ssmaritime.com/Marama.htm |title= SS Maheno & SS Marama |publisher= SSMaritime |date= 2015 }}
- {{cite web|url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/WH1-Effo-fig-WH1-Effo133a.html |title= Photo of NZ Hospital Ship Marama |publisher= NZETCe= 2015 }}
- {{cite web|url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19071113.2.188.8&srpos=1&e=01-11-1907-20-12-1907--100--1-byDA-on--0Marama-ILLUSTRATION- |title= SS Marama on trial on Clyde (photo) |publisher= Otago Witness (Papers Past) |date=13 November 1907}}
- {{cite web|url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19071113.2.188.9&srpos=2&e=01-11-1907-20-12-1907--100--1-byDA-on--0Marama-ILLUSTRATION- |title= Captain Gibb, officers and passengers on Marama (photo) |publisher= Otago Witness (Papers Past) |date=13 November 1907}}
- {{cite web|url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW19071113.2.188.11&srpos=3&e=01-11-1907-20-12-1907--100--1-byDA-on--0Marama-ILLUSTRATION- |title= SS Marama at Dunedin wharf (photo) |publisher= Otago Witness (Papers Past) |date=13 November 1907}}
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Marama (ship, 1907)}}
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Category:Auxiliary ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy
Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
Category:Hospital ships in World War I
Category:Passenger ships of New Zealand
Category:Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company
Category:World War I auxiliary ships of New Zealand
Category:Hospital ships of New Zealand
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