Momowai IDNo 1147816

[Gordy Ross]

MONOWAI
Momowai (2)

1925-1960

P&O later transfered USSCo New Zealand

Passenger/cargo

ON: 147816

IDNo: 1147816

Year: 1925

Name: RAZMAK

Type: Passenger/cargo

Flag: GBR

Launched: 16.10.24

Completed: 26.2.25

Owner: P&O SN Co.

Builder: Harland & Wolff, Greenock.

Yard No: 659gk

Link: 1600

Starke: V1925 #457

Tons: 10,857

LPP: 152.5

Beam: 19.3
2Q-18.5 knots.

Subsequent History:

1930 August. Sold by P&O to USSCo. & r/n MONOWAI (To replace Tahiti recently sunk.)

Disposal Data:

BU Hong Kong 13.9.60

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library NZ

Details supplied by Mirimar

Cheers and GB

Gordy

[Derek]

1925, 10602grt

Harland & Wolff, Greenock (659) for P. & O.

Aden - Bombay shuttle service, 142 1st and 142 2nd. class passengers

1930 MONOWAI, Union Steamship Company of New Zealand

Requisitioned 9/1939, armed merchant cruiser from 8/1940, landing ship from 9/1943

Returned to service 1949

Broken up at Hong Kong, arrived 13/9/1960

(coll. R.Cox)