SS Rotorua (1910)

Rotorua
History
United Kingdom
Name	Rotorua
Namesake	Rotorua
Owner	1910: George T Haycraft 1912: New Zealand Shipping Company
Operator	1910: J Cowan & GL King 1912: New Zealand Shipping Company
Port of registry	Plymouth
Route	London – Plymouth – Canary Islands – Cape Town – Hobart – Wellington or: London – Plymouth – Canary Islands – Montevideo – Wellington
Builder	Wm Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
Cost	£172,483
Yard number	915
Launched	9 July 1910
Completed	8 October 1910
Identification	UK official number 124587 code letters HRSG call sign MKE
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 22 March 1917
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	11,130 GRT, 7,094 NRT, 10,600 DWT
Length	484.2 ft (147.6 m)
Beam	62.3 ft (19.0 m)
Draught	29.4 ft (9.0 m)
Depth	41.1 ft (12.5 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	605 NHP, 8,631 ihp
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines 1 × low-pressure steam turbine 3 × screws
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 52 first class 88 second class 440 third class cargo: 299,540 cubic feet (8,482 m3) refrigerated 194,180 cubic feet (5,499 m3) non-refrigerated
Crew	144
Armament	(as DEMS): 1 × 4.7-inch gun
Notes	sister ships: Ruahine, Remuera

SS Rotorua was a New Zealand Shipping Company steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship that was built in Scotland in 1910 and sunk by a U-boat in 1917.

She was not the only NZ Shipping Co ship to be called Rotorua. There was also a ship that was launched in 1911 as Shropshire for the Federal Steam Navigation Company, transferred to the NZ Shipping Co fleet in 1936 and renamed Rotorua. She was sunk by a U-boat in 1940.^[1]