SS Mongolia (1922)
Mongolia off Australia. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Mongolia |
| Owner | P&O |
| Port of registry | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Route | UK—Australia, later UK—New Zealand |
| Ordered | 22 November 1918 |
| Builder | Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Cost | £1 million |
| Yard number | 964 |
| Launched | 24 August 1922 |
| Completed | 26 April 1923 |
| Maiden voyage | 11 May 1923 |
| Out of service | 1937 |
| Identification | Official number: 145517 |
| Fate | Sold, 1938 |
| New Zealand | |
| Name | Rimutaka |
| Operator | New Zealand Shipping Company |
| Port of registry | Plymouth |
| Out of service | 1950 |
| Fate | Sold, 1950 |
| Panama | |
| Name | Europa |
| Owner | Incres Steamship Company |
| Port of registry | Panama |
| Out of service | September, 1951 |
| Fate | Sold, 1951 |
| --> Panama --> Liberia | |
| Name | Nassau |
| Port of registry | Panama, later Liberia |
| Out of service | 1961 |
| Fate | Sold, 1961 |
| Mexico | |
| Name | Acapulco |
| Owner | Natumex |
| Port of registry | Acapulco, Mexico |
| Acquired | 1961 |
| Out of service | 1963 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage |
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| Length | 573 ft (175 m) overall, 551 ft 6 in (168.10 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Draught | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Depth | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
| Installed power | 6 double-reduction-geared steam turbines |
| Propulsion | Twin screws |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Capacity | 231 first class, 180 second class passengers; 669,000 cu ft (18,900 m3) cargo including 136,000 cu ft (3,900 m3) refrigerated |
SS Mongolia was a steam turbine-driven twin-screw passenger-and-cargo ocean liner launched in 1922 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) for service from the United Kingdom to Australia. Later in P&O service she sailed for New Zealand, and in 1938 she was chartered to a P&O subsidiary, the New Zealand Shipping Company, as SS Rimutaka.
In 1950 she was sold to become the SS Europa, carrying immigrants to the United States from Europe; later, she became a Bahamas cruise ship, the SS Nassau. Its final incarnation was under a Mexican flag as a Los Angeles to Acapulco cruise liner, SS Acapulco, making her the only ocean liner to ever fly the Mexican flag. The ship was scrapped in 1964.