SS Mongolia (1922)

Mongolia off Australia.
History
United Kingdom
Name	Mongolia
Owner	P&O
Port of registry	Newcastle upon Tyne[1]
Route	UK—Australia, later UK—New Zealand[1]
Ordered	22 November 1918[1]
Builder	Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne[1]
Cost	£1 million
Yard number	964[1]
Launched	24 August 1922[1]
Completed	26 April 1923[1]
Maiden voyage	11 May 1923[1]
Out of service	1937[1]
Identification	Official number: 145517
Fate	Sold, 1938
New Zealand
Name	Rimutaka
Operator	New Zealand Shipping Company
Port of registry	Plymouth
Out of service	1950
Fate	Sold, 1950
Panama
Name	Europa
Owner	Incres Steamship Company
Port of registry	Panama
Out of service	September, 1951
Fate	Sold, 1951
--> Panama --> Liberia
Name	Nassau
Port of registry	Panama, later Liberia
Out of service	1961
Fate	Sold, 1961
Mexico
Name	Acapulco
Owner	Natumex
Port of registry	Acapulco, Mexico
Acquired	1961
Out of service	1963
Fate	Scrapped 1964
General characteristics
Tonnage	16,504 GRT 10,383 Net Register Tonnage[1]
Length	573 ft (175 m) overall, 551 ft 6 in (168.10 m) between perpendiculars[1]
Beam	72 ft (22 m)[1]
Draught	30 ft (9.1 m)[1]
Depth	38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)[1]
Installed power	6 double-reduction-geared steam turbines[1]
Propulsion	Twin screws[1]
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)[1]
Capacity	231 first class, 180 second class passengers; 669,000 cu ft (18,900 m3) cargo including 136,000 cu ft (3,900 m3) refrigerated

The SS Mongolia was a steam turbine-driven twin-screw passenger-and-cargo ocean liner launched in 1922 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) for service from the United Kingdom to Australia. Later in P&O service she sailed for New Zealand, and in 1938 she was chartered to a P&O subsidiary, the New Zealand Shipping Company, as SS Rimutaka.

In 1950 she was sold to become the SS Europa, carrying immigrants to the United States from Europe; later, she became a Bahamas cruise ship, the SS Nassau. Its final incarnation was under a Mexican flag as a Los Angeles to Acapulco cruise liner, SS Acapulco, making her the only ocean liner to ever fly the Mexican flag. The ship was scrapped in 1964.^[2]