MOMUS
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:26 pm
Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 338 by Wm. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia for the Southern Pacific Co. Inc. (Morgan Line), New York.
31 July 1906 launched as the MOMUS, one sister the ANTILLES.
Tonnage 6,878 gross, 3,893 net, dim. 125.0 (bpp) x 16.2 x 7.80m.
Powered by triple a expansion steam engine, 859 nhp., one shaft, speed 17 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 164 first class passengers.
November 1906 delivered to owners which were then named Southern Pacific SS Lines, New York.
Used in the liner service between New York and New Orleans.
During World War I for some time used as a USA Army Transport between the USA and France.
1935 Sold to Japanese breakers and renamed for the voyage to the breakers in MOMUS MARU.
She was broken up in Osaka, Japan where she arrived on 30 January 1935.
The design was taken from a Chinese banknote.
China 1947 $100 sg985, scott776
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and various other web-sites.
31 July 1906 launched as the MOMUS, one sister the ANTILLES.
Tonnage 6,878 gross, 3,893 net, dim. 125.0 (bpp) x 16.2 x 7.80m.
Powered by triple a expansion steam engine, 859 nhp., one shaft, speed 17 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 164 first class passengers.
November 1906 delivered to owners which were then named Southern Pacific SS Lines, New York.
Used in the liner service between New York and New Orleans.
During World War I for some time used as a USA Army Transport between the USA and France.
1935 Sold to Japanese breakers and renamed for the voyage to the breakers in MOMUS MARU.
She was broken up in Osaka, Japan where she arrived on 30 January 1935.
The design was taken from a Chinese banknote.
China 1947 $100 sg985, scott776
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and various other web-sites.