SS Wakool

Wakool
History
Name	1898: Wakool 1913: Kwanto Maru 1917: Le Myre de Villers
Namesake	1898: Wakool, New South Wales 1917: Charles Le Myre de Vilers
Owner	1898: Wilhelm Lund 1905: Blue Anchor Line 1910: P&O 1913: Goshi Kaisha Kishimoto Shokai 1917: French Government 1919: Brabant et Pruvost
Operator	1905: Wilhelm Lund & Sons 1919: Messageries Maritimes
Port of registry	1898: London 1913: Dairen 1917: Marseille
Route	1898: Great Britain – Cape Colony – Australia
Builder	Sunderland Sb Co, Sunderland
Yard number	196
Launched	4 August 1898
Completed	26 October 1898
Refit	1910
Identification	1898: UK official number 109996 1898: code letters QJNW 1913: code letters QBGP 1917: code letters ONXE
Fate	scrapped, 1923
General characteristics
Type	refrigerated cargo liner
Tonnage	5,004 GRT, 3,147 NRT
Length	400.0 ft (121.9 m)
Beam	47.5 ft (14.5 m)
Draught	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Depth	20.2 ft (6.2 m)
Installed power	1 × triple-expansion engine; 580 NHP; 3,000 ihp
Propulsion	1 × screw
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 50 × saloon class; + steerage for emigrants cargo: 71,759 cubic feet (2,032 m3) refrigerated
Notes	sister ships: Narrung, Wilcannia

SS Wakool was a refrigerated cargo liner that was launched in England in 1898. She belonged to Wilhelm Lund's Blue Anchor Line until 1910, when P&O took over the company. She was a troopship in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902. In 1913 a Japanese company bought the ship and renamed her Kwanto Maru. In 1914 she was a Japanese depot ship in the siege of Tsingtao. In 1917 the French government bought her and renamed her Le Myre de Villers. The French government sold her in 1923, and she was scrapped in Italy later that year.