SS Akaroa

	Akaroa in New Plymouth in 1934
History
United Kingdom
Name	1914: Euripides; 1932: Akaroa;
Namesake	1914: Euripides; 1932: Akaroa;
Owner	1914: George Thompson & Co Ltd; 1932: Shaw, Savill & Albion Line;
Operator	1914: Aberdeen Line; 1929: White Star Line; 1932: Shaw, Savill & Albion Line;
Port of registry	1914: Aberdeen; 1932: Southampton;
Route	1914: London – Cape Town – Brisbane; 1923: Southampton – Australia; 1927: Liverpool – Australia; 1932: Southampton – Curaçao – Panama Canal – New Zealand;
Builder	Harland and Wolff
Yard number	439
Launched	29 January 1914
Completed	6 June 1914
Refit	1932, 1945
Identification	UK official number 133648; pennant number A14 (1914–17); code letters JFRC (until 1933); ; call sign MSE (by 1918); call sign GMLP (by 1930); ;
Fate	Scrapped 1954
General characteristics
Tonnage	1914: 14,947 GRT, 9,399 NRT; 1932: 15,128 GRT, 9,461 NRT; 1945: 15,320 GRT;
Displacement	25,000 tons
Length	550.7 ft (167.9 m) p/p; 569 ft (173 m) o/a;
Beam	67.4 ft (20.5 m)
Draught	32 ft 11 in (10.03 m)
Depth	44.1 ft (13.4 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	1,401 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines; 1 × low-pressure steam turbine; 3 × screws;
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity	1914:; 140 first class berths; 334 third class berths; 750 steerage class berths; 1932: 200 cabin class berths; 1946: 190 cabin class berths; 1914: 245,593 cubic feet (6,954 m3) refrigerated cargo; 1932: 442,680 cubic feet (12,535 m3) refrigerated cargo;
Sensors &; processing systems	wireless direction finding (by 1930); echo sounding device (from 1934); gyrocompass (from 1936);
Armament	(as DEMS)

SS Akaroa was a UK steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1914 in Ireland as Euripides for Aberdeen Line. When new, she was the largest ship in the Aberdeen Line fleet.

In the First World War she was an Allied troop ship. From 1929 White Star Line managed her. In 1932 Euripides passed to Shaw, Savill & Albion Line who had her refitted and renamed her Akaroa. She survived the Second World War and was scrapped in Belgium in 1954.

Aberdeen Line named some of its ships after classical Greek people and events. Euripides was a tragedian in Classical Athens in the fifth century BC.

Shaw, Savill & Albion names some of its ships after places in New Zealand. Akaroa is a small town on South Island.