Name Reina del Pacifico Yard number 852 Launched 23 September 1930 Draft 9.5 m | Completed 24 March 1931 Length 168 m Builder Harland and Wolff | |
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Maiden voyage Liverpool — Valparaíso, Chile | ||
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RMMV Reina del Pacifico was a 17,702 GRT passenger ship of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, she was launched on 23 September 1930, and was the largest and fastest motor liner of her time, sailing from Liverpool to the Caribbean, Panama Canal and South America.
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She became famous in 1937 after the former British Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald died aboard whilst on a cruise at the age of 71, just two years after leaving government.
During the Second World War she was requisitioned for service as a troopship, and also took part in the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.
In January 1947 she returned to her owners, refurbished, and returned to service in 1948 on the Liverpool-Valparaiso service. She ran aground 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km) north of Ireland Island, Bermuda, on 8 July 1957, but was refloated on 11 July 1957.
On 27 April 1958, Reina del Pacifico departed on her last voyage before being withdrawn from service and was subsequently scrapped at the yard of J Cashmore at Newport in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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