Passenger ship of Union S.S.Co., New Zealand, London. Built at Brown,Clydebank.Drive over 3 Screws, max 18kn. 13 415 GRT, 165.5m length, 20.2m wide.290 Passg. I,Class, 223 II.Class, 191 III.Class, Crew: 205. Deployed on the Sydney – Vancouver route.In 1932 the ship changed to the Canadian Australasian, a shipping company founded jointly by Canadian Pacific and the Union S.S.Co Line. 1940 gets caught in a minefield laid by the German auxiliary cruiser ORION, is hit and sinks