Completed 5 December 1911 Launched 24 August 1911 | Yard number 479 Tonnage 7,527 gross tonnage Length 136 m | |
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Name Maunganui (1911-1948)Cyrenia (1948-1957) Owner Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (1911-1947)G.M.Lykiardopulo (1947-1948)Cia Naviera del Atlantico (1948-1949)Hellenic Mediterranean Lines (1949-1957) | ||
The TSS Maunganui (later S/S Cyrenia) was a passenger vessel built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and launched on 24 August 1911.
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Career
Launched in 1911 to carry the Royal Mail and served on the San Francisco and Sydney runs. She was employed as a troopship during World War I and World War II. She was sold to Cia Naviera del Atlantica, Piraeus in 1948 and renamed Cyrenia. She was sold in 1949 to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines and undertook service from Genoa and Piraeus to Melbourne and Sydney, carrying Greek and Italian emigrants.
Fate
She was broken up in 1957 at Savona, Italy.
Cultural legacy
In Greece the S/S Cyrenia is prominent due to Nikos Kavvadias' poem "Οι 7 νάνοι στο S/S Cyrenia" (The Seven Dwarves on the S/S Cyrenia) and Thanos Mikroutsikos' song on its lyrics.