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SS MARMORA
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SS MARMORA

Artist
Date1903-1918
Object number00001329
NamePainting
MediumOil paint on cardboard (beaver board).
DimensionsDisplay dimensions (Frame): 682 × 988 × 48 mm
ClassificationsArt
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionSS MARMORA was a P&O passenger liner constructed for the India, China and Australia mail sevices.HistoryThe SS MARMORA was built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, in 1903 for the P & O Line. She was acquisitioned during WWI by the Royal Navy and converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On July 23rd, 1918 MARMORA was on a voyage from Cardiff to Dakar and was sunk by the German submarine UB-64 (commanded by Otto von Schrader) just south of Ireland. Most of those on board survived with the exception of ten crew members. "S.S. Marmora Sunk. LONDON, July 27. The Admiralty has announced that, the armed mercantile cruiser MARMORA ' wastorpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on Tuesday last. Ten of the crew are missing. The MARMORA, which was one of the best-known vessels of the P.and O. line, was a steel -twin-screw steamer, of 10,506 tons, built at Belfast in 1903. She was well known on the Australian run." -Adelaide Observer, 3 August, 1918.SignificanceThe MAMORA was a regular passenger ship to Australia and New Zealand before WWI.