Monarch of Bermuda 1931

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Name:	MONARCH OF BERMUDA
Type:	Passenger Refrigerated Cargo Ship
Launched:	17/03/1931
Completed:	11/1931
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard:	High Walker
Yard Number:	1
Dimensions:	22424grt, 12876nrt, 553.2 x 76.7 x 39.0ft
Engines:	2 x Steam turbines plus electric motors
Engines by:	Fraser & Chalmers, Erith (turbines) & General Electric Co Ltd, Birmingham (motors)
Propulsion:	4 x Screws, 20.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Reg Number:	162650

History:
10/10/1931	Furness, Withy & Co Ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda
1949	Ministry of Transport (Shaw, Savill & Albion Co Ltd, managers); renamed NEW AUSTRALIA
1958	Ormos Shipping Co Ltd, London
1958	Arcadia Steam Ship Co, Andros; renamed ARKADIA
18/12/1966	Broken up

Comments:	Built for the New York to Bermuda route and other long ocean voyages
	Accommodation for 830 x 1st and 30 x 2nd Class passengers
	24/05/1947: Gutted by fire at Palmers Shipyard, Hebburn whilst refitting after
	trooping service. She was declared a total loss and supposedly sold for scrap.
	The UK Ministry of Transport reappraised the wreck, purchased her, and then had her rebuilt as an emigrant ship. She was moved under her own power to Southampton and then she was rebuilt by JI Thornycroft & Co Ltd.
	In the rebuilding, her three funnels were replaced by a single one, and the mainmast by a peculiar looking, bipod mast/funnel arrangement forward of the funnel.
	09/1958: Whilst acting as a troop ship she was in collision with a tanker in the Torres Strait. Damage to both vessels was not severe.
	1958: She was rebuilt and modernized by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg
	She was now 20,259 tons, and her forepeak, which was damaged in the recent collision, was extended to provide a curved stem, and she was lengthened to 590 feet. Her foremast was replaced by two king-posts.
	18/12/1966: Broken up at Valencia, Spain