RMS Maloja

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History
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Maloja
Owner	P&O Steam Navigation Co
Port of registry	London
Route	London, India, China, Australia mail and passenger service
Ordered	29 November 1918
Builder	Messrs Harland & Wolff, Ltd, Belfast
Yard number	588[1]
Launched	19 April 1923
Completed	25 October 1923[1]
Maiden voyage	2 November 1923
Fate	Scrapped on 2 April 1954, Inverkeithing
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	20,847 GRT 12,836 net tonnage 16,032 tons deadweight
Length	600+1⁄2 ft (183.0 m) pp
Beam	73+1⁄2 ft (22.4 m)
Draught	34 ft 10 in (10.6 m)
Decks	5
Installed power	15,300 shaft horsepower (11,400 kW)
Propulsion	2 quadruple-expansion steam engines, inverted direct acting Twin screw 6 double-ended & 2 single-ended oil-fired boilers producing steam at 215 psi (1,480 kPa)
Speed	16 kn (30 km/h)
Capacity	Passengers: 327 first class 329 second class
Crew	423: 10 officers 94 seamen 22 engineers 82 firemen 215 saloon crew
Notes	Black hull with white line, red boot-topping, upper works stone, funnels black.

RMS Maloja was a British ocean liner that saw service from 1923 to 1954.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ordered two sister ships, RMS Maloja and RMS Mooltan, from Harland and Wolff Ltd on 29 November 1918. Hull number 588^[1] was named Maloja, after a previous SS Maloja that was a 1911 M-class liner that had been sunk by a German mine in 1916. The interior design was in keeping with the high standards of the Line. The public rooms were luxurious, completely decorated and lofty. All first and second class cabins had portholes. The dining saloon seated 330; it was panelled in a neo-Georgian style, finished throughout in ivory white, with the doors and architraves in polished mahogany. The reading and music saloon was in the style of Louis XVI with large French windows. RMS Maloja was launched by Hon. Elsie Mackay, daughter of the company's chairman James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape, on 19 April 1923. Maloja and Mooltan eventually earned a reputation for comfort and reliability. Maloja was delivered on 25 October 1923. The two sister ships were the largest that could comfortably pass through the Suez Canal at that time.