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QSMV Dominion Monarch
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QSMV Dominion Monarch was a UK passenger and refrigerated cargo liner. Her name was a reference to the Dominion of New Zealand. The unusual prefix "QSMV" stood for quadruple-screw motor vessel.
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Builder | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson |
Cost | £1,500,000 |
Yard number | 1547 |
Laid down | 14 July 1937 |
Launched | 27 July 1938 |
Completed | 12 January 1939 |
Maiden voyage | 17 February 1939 |
Out of service | 21 April 1962 |
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Fate | arrived 25 November 1962, Osaka, Japan to be scrapped |
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Type | Ocean liner and refrigerated cargo liner |
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Length | 657.6 ft (200.4 m) p/p |
Beam | 84.8 ft (25.8 m) |
Draught | 34 ft 1+1⁄2 in (10.40 m) |
Depth | 44.4 ft (13.5 m) |
Decks | 6 |
Installed power | 5,056 NHP or 32,000 bhp |
Propulsion | marine diesel engines; four screws |
Speed | 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h) |
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Crew | 385 (in civilian service) |
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The ship was built in England in 1937–39, and when new she set a number of records for her size and power. She operated between Britain and New Zealand via Australia in civilian service 1938–40 and 1948–62 and was a troop ship 1940–47. She spent half of 1962 in the Port of Seattle as a floating hotel for the Century 21 Exposition and was then scrapped in Japan.