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Three ships have borne the name Empress of Australia:
Komagata Maru was a steamship owned by the Shinyei Kisen Goshi Kaisya of Japan. She was built as a cargo ship in 1890 and had previously been known as both SS Stubbenhuk and SS Sicilia while sailing for two different German owners. She was later renamed Heian Maru.
Empire Caribou was a 4,861 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as Waterbury. She was sold in 1920 to the American Star Line and renamed Northern Star. In 1923, she was sold to American Sugar Transporters Inc and renamed Defacto. In 1941 she was passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Caribou. On 10 May 1941, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-556.
Several steamships have borne the name Donau, after the German name for the river Danube:
Several steamships have borne the name Selma:
Several steamships have borne the name Sirius:
Several motor ships have borne the name Monte Rosa after Monte Rosa, the highest mountain in Switzerland:
Several steamships have borne the name Pfalz, after the Palatinate region in Germany:
Several steamships have borne the name Westfalen, after the Westphalia region in Germany:
Several steamships have borne the name Stella:
Two steamships have borne the name Abessinia, after the German name for the Ethiopian Empire:
Four steamships have borne the name Dronning Maud, after the Norwegian Queen Maud:
Several steamships have borne the name Irma:
Several steamships have borne the name Flynderborg, after the fortress in Denmark:
Five steamships have borne the name Tottenham, after Tottenham in the United Kingdom:
Five steamships have borne the name Bosnia, after Bosnia:
Several steamships have borne the name Main:
Several motor ships have borne the name Sama:
The steamship Kerry Range was a 5,800-ton general cargo freighter, armed with 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns, that had been built by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company and launched on 27 November 1915. While serving as a Royal Navy armed transport she was damaged in a fire, with loss of life, in Baltimore, Maryland, in October 1917. Investigating officials, after the fire, were convinced the vessel was the target of arson, and that the arsonists were German agents—an enemy of the United Kingdom and the United States, during World War I. Several suspects were arrested. However, it was later determined that the fire on Pier 9, that triggered the fire on board Kerry Range, was due to an electrical malfunction that triggered oakum, a flammable product once used to pack seams on ships. Three crew members lost their lives. Firefighting officials towed the blazing vessel away from the pier, to help prevent it igniting nearby Pier 8, and scuttled her. It took over a day to completely put out the fires on the hulk. Some press reports at the time wrote she was a complete write-off. However, the damaged vessel was salvaged and sold to the Steam Navigation Company of Canada in 1918.
The Jubilee class were a group of five passenger and cargo ocean liners built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, for the White Star Line, specifically for the White Star Line's service from the UK to Australia on the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. The five ships in order of the dates they entered service were:
References
- ↑ "Oria (1095825)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ↑ "Oria (5603600)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ↑ "Oria (5604861)" . Miramar Ship Index . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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