| Name: | DOMINION MONARCH |
| Type: | Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 27/07/1938 |
| Completed: | 01/1939 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1547 |
| Dimensions: | 26463grt, 149633nrt, 657.6 x 84.8 x 44.4ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Oil engines, 2SCSA, Doxford type, 5cyl (725 x 2250mm), 5056nhp |
| Engines by: | 2 x Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd and 2 x Wm Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Screws, 20.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 166828 |
| History: | |
| 12/01/1939 | Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, Southampton |
| 1962 | Mitsui & Co, Osaka; renamed DOMINION MONARCH MARU |
| 25/11/1962 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 01/1939: Acommodation for 508 all first class passengers & 385 crew |
| On completion she was the World's most powerful motor powered liner | |
| 08/1940: Requisitioned by the UK Government to be used as a troopship. All her internal fittings were removed and she was converted to carry 3556 troops | |
| 07/1947: Returned to her owners & spent the next 15 months at her builders being completely overhauled and the passenger fittings (for 508 first class passengers) were restored | |
| 1962: Used as an entertainment centre & hotel at Seattle's Century 21 Exposition | |
| 25/11/1962: Broken up at Osaka by Mitsui & Co |
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