The Passenger Liner MONARCH OF BERMUDA Underway

The Passenger Liner MONARCH OF BERMUDA Underway

The passenger liner MONARCH OF BERMUDA underway. Name: MONARCH OF BERMUDAType: Passenger Refrigerated Cargo ShipLaunched: 17/03/1931Completed: 11/1931Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs LtdYardHigh WalkerYard Number: 1Dimensions: 22424grt, 12876nrt, 553.2 x 76.7 x 39.0ftEngines: 2 x Steam turbines plus electric motorsEngines by: Fraser & Chalmers, Erith (turbines) & General Electric Co Ltd, Birmingham (motors)Propulsion: 4 x Screws, 20.0knotsConstruction: SteelReg Number: 162650History: 10/10/1931 Furness, Withy & Co Ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda1949 Ministry of Transport (Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, managers); renamed NEW AUSTRALIA in1958 Ormos Shipping Co Ltd, London1958 Arcadia Steam Ship Co, Andros; renamed ARKADIA18/12/1966 Broken upComments: Built for the New York to Bermuda route and other long ocean voyagesAccommodation for 830 x 1st and 30 x 2nd Class passengers24/05/1947: Gutted by fire at Palmers Shipyard, Hebburn whilst refitting after trooping service. She was declared a total loss and supposedly sold for scrap.The UK Ministry of Transport reappraised the wreck, purchased her, and then had her rebuilt as an emigrant ship. She was moved under her own power to Southampton and then she was rebuilt by JI Thornycroft & Co Ltd. In the rebuilding, her three funnels were replaced by a single one, and the mainmast by a peculiar looking, bipod mast/funnel arrangement forward of the funnel.09/1958: Whilst acting as a troop ship she was in collision with a tanker in the Torres Strait. Damage to both vessels was not severe.1958: She was rebuilt and modernized by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg. She was now 20,259 tons, and her forepeak, which was damaged in the recent collision, was extended to provide a curved stem, and she was lengthened to 590 feet. Her foremast was replaced by two king-posts.18/12/1966: Broken up at Valencia, Spain