1904: Bristol – Kingston, Jamaica
1911: Sydney – Wellington – San Francisco
Builder
Alexander Stephen and Sons, Clydebank
Yard number
403
Launched
19 April 1904
Acquired
1911
Identification
Official number 117715
Code letters VTWG
Fate
Sank 17 August 1930
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
7,585 GRT, 4,155 NRT
Length
460 ft (140 m)
Beam
55.5 ft (16.9 m)
Draught
27 ft (8.2 m)
Depth
24.4 ft (7.4 m)
Installed power
1,443 NHP
Propulsion
2 × triple expansion engines
2 × screws
Speed
17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity
515 passengers (as built)
36,370 cu ft (1,030 m3) refrigerated cargo
Crew
135
RMS Tahiti was a UK Royal Mail Ship, ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1904 in Scotland as RMS Port Kingston for a subsidiary of Elder Dempster Lines. In 1911 the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand bought her and renamed her Tahiti.
In the First World War she was a troop ship. In 1918 an outbreak of Spanish flu resulted in exceptionally high mortality amongst the troops aboard her. After the war she was returned to her owners.
In 1927 Tahiti collided with a ferry in Sydney Harbour, killing 40 ferry passengers. In 1930 Tahiti sank without loss of life in the South Pacific Ocean due to flooding caused by a broken propeller shaft.
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against England's 61. The Australians' return home was delayed because the RMSTahiti on which they were due to travel sank during the Games. Men's 440 Yard...
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never to return to Gallipoli. Beck invalided back to New Zealand on the RMSTahiti 20 November 1915 and a medical board had found him "incapacitated for...
3 November – The Sydney ferry Greycliffe is cut in half by the liner RMSTahiti, killing 40 persons. Professor Thomas Parnell begins the pitch drop experiment...
(sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract...
The Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) is a medium-sized, dark brown and white seabird found across the Pacific Ocean. The species comprises two subspecies:...
type" due to the country's unemployment problem. The British ocean liner RMSTahiti lost its starboard propeller and sprang a leak about 400 miles southwest...
disaster. The Watson's Bay ferry, Greycliffe, had been struck by the liner RMSTahiti cutting the ferry into two and sinking it. Kummulla's crew diverted her...
"The Tahiti". The Times. No. 45595. London. 19 August 1930. col D, p. 10. plimsoll.org Report on a Shipping Casualty to the Steamship "Tahiti," 15 September...
World War I. He was on the permanent medical staff of the transport ship RMSTahiti in 1918 when an outbreak of Spanish influenza caused high mortality amongst...
Ballard for an ultimately successful expedition to locate the wreck of the RMS Titanic. In 1994 Ifremer assisted in the salvage of the cargo from the SS...
RMS Ebro was an ocean liner that was launched in Ireland in 1914. With changes of ownership she was renamed Princesa Olga in 1935 and Serpa Pinto in 1940...
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1* COM Pan Am Flight 816 Boeing 707-321B frePacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia ENR 1973-07-22 78 3 75 0 COM Aviogenex Flight 130 Tupolev...
Chaetodon trichrous (Tahiti butterflyfish) is a species of fish in the family Chaetodontidae. This species is included in the subgenus Lepidochaetodon...
the shell attains 27.7 mm. This marine species occurs off Tahiti, French Polynesia. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Nebularia gourgueti (Poppe...
brackish waters of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean coasts from India to Tahiti. There are currently two recognized species in this genus: Pseudapocryptes...
Tahiti. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1928 3: 717-735. Crossland, C., 1931. The reduced building-power and other variation in the astrean corals of Tahiti,...
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