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To Shaw Savill Line.
The Akaroa (15,128 grt, 570 ft. long) was originally the Euripides of the Aberdeen Line.
Her maiden voyage in 1914 was interrupted by the outbreak of WW1 and service as troop transport
until 1920 when she was finally back on her intended London-Brisbane run.
She was renamed Akaroa when taken over by Shaw Savill Line in 1932 to be placed on her new owner's service
to New Zealand via the Panama Canal. She was scrapped in 1954.
(PC published by C.R. Hoffmann, Southampton, UK)
The Mataroa (12,390 grt in 1932, 519 ft. long) and Tamaroa (12,405 grt in 1932, 519 ft. long)
were sisters with identical careers: completed
in 1922 as the Diogenes and Sophocles
for Aberdeen Line's London-Brisbane service, chartered to Shaw Savill Line in 1926
(when renamed) for
Southampton-Wellington service, sold to Shaw Savill in 1932,
troop transports 1940-48 and finally broken up in 1957.
(PC published by H.Y. Scott, Gravesend, UK)
(PC published by C.R. Hoffmann, Southampton, UK)
(Shaw Savill Line official PC)
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