MOREA built in 1908 by Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow for P & 0 Line. Gross tons 10.895 nett, 5965. Length 540ft beam 61.2ft. Draught 24.7ft. Carried 407-1st, 200-2nd class passengers. Maiden voyage 4 December 1908 Tilbury
-Colombo-Melbourne. Became a hospital ship in 1915, later in 1916 was a transport for Australian expeditionary force. 1918 converted to an armed merchant cruiser
served as HMS MOREA with 7 x 6" guns.
1919 returned to her service to Australia, sold in 1930 for breaking up.
Log Book July 1984
Cocos Is SG113 (I do not have the stamp)
Photographs courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
Morea
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Re: Morea
Built as a passenger- cargo vessel under yard No 471 by Barclay, Curle and Co. Ltd., Glasgow for the P&O Line.
05 November 1907 keel laid down
15 August 1908 launched as the MOREA, named after the Peloponnese peninsula in southwest Greece.
Tonnage 10,890 gross, 5,960 net, dim. 540.0 x 61.2 x 24.7ft.
Powered by two quadruple 4-cyl expansion steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 13,000 hp., twin shafts, speed 16 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 407 first class, 200 second class.
05 November 1908 left the builder’s yard, building cost £309,692.
She was special built for the mail and passenger service either between the U.K and India or U.K. to Australia.
04 December 1908 maiden voyage from Tilbury to Australia via Marseille, Suez and Colombo.
07 September 1914 she left Sydney for London, but owing to the German light cruiser EMDEN in the vicinity the Lascar deck crew refused to service beyond Bombay. A company of Royal Engineers who had embarked at Colombo were utilised in their place and crewed the vessel back to Tilbury, U.K.
Hired as armed merchant cruiser from March 1916 until 05 July 1917.
05 July 1917 commissioned in Royal Albert Dock as HMS MOREA, armament 7 – 6 inch guns. Used as a convoy escort until the end of the war.
18 October 1919 left London for Sydney in her first post war voyage after a lengthy overhaul at Avonmouth.
03 September 1930 sold for £32,500 to Summers and Co. for scrapping at Kobe, Japan.
19 October 1930 arrived at Kobe.
Source: P&O a Fleet History, World Ship Society. Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878-1945 by Osborne, Spong and Grover. Ships of the Royal Navy by J.J. Colledge.
05 November 1907 keel laid down
15 August 1908 launched as the MOREA, named after the Peloponnese peninsula in southwest Greece.
Tonnage 10,890 gross, 5,960 net, dim. 540.0 x 61.2 x 24.7ft.
Powered by two quadruple 4-cyl expansion steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 13,000 hp., twin shafts, speed 16 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 407 first class, 200 second class.
05 November 1908 left the builder’s yard, building cost £309,692.
She was special built for the mail and passenger service either between the U.K and India or U.K. to Australia.
04 December 1908 maiden voyage from Tilbury to Australia via Marseille, Suez and Colombo.
07 September 1914 she left Sydney for London, but owing to the German light cruiser EMDEN in the vicinity the Lascar deck crew refused to service beyond Bombay. A company of Royal Engineers who had embarked at Colombo were utilised in their place and crewed the vessel back to Tilbury, U.K.
Hired as armed merchant cruiser from March 1916 until 05 July 1917.
05 July 1917 commissioned in Royal Albert Dock as HMS MOREA, armament 7 – 6 inch guns. Used as a convoy escort until the end of the war.
18 October 1919 left London for Sydney in her first post war voyage after a lengthy overhaul at Avonmouth.
03 September 1930 sold for £32,500 to Summers and Co. for scrapping at Kobe, Japan.
19 October 1930 arrived at Kobe.
Source: P&O a Fleet History, World Ship Society. Armed Merchant Cruisers 1878-1945 by Osborne, Spong and Grover. Ships of the Royal Navy by J.J. Colledge.
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