| Name: | EMIL L BOAS |
| Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 25/10/1912 |
| Completed: | 12/1912 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 913 |
| Dimensions: | 6014grt, 3553nrt, 410.9 x 51.1 x 30.4ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (23.5, 39 & 66 x 45ins), 1032nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 16.0 knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1914: 134702) |
| History: | |
| 12/1912 | Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg |
| 07/05/1914 | Elder & Fyffes Ltd, Bristol; renamed MOTAGUA |
| 29/10/1933 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Laid down as NORMANNIA for Hamburg-Amerika Linie |
| Accommodation for 70 to 80 x passengers in 1st Class only | |
| 21/11/1914: Requisitioned by The Admiralty as an armed merchant cruiser | |
| Armed with 6 x 1 x 6.0ins guns and 2 x 1 x 3pdr AA guns | |
| 18/12/1919: Returned to owners | |
| 29/10/1933: Arrived at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht for breaking up by Frank Rijsdijk |
Above photo as EMIL L BOAS is courtesy of Shipping Today & Yesterday
Above photo as MOTAGUA is courtesy of Photoship