NOW HOSPITAL SHIP.
UNION COMPANY'S MARAMA. IN HANDS OF JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Sold to a Chinese firm in 1937 for breaking up, the Union Company's steamer Marama appears not to have suffered that fate, but to be now in the hands of the Japanese at Shanghai as a hospital ship. She was seen there by Mr. F. F. Batterby, formerly of Wellington, who is now a quartermaster of the P. and O. liner Chitral. In a letter he says the ship is getting plenty of work in her renewed capacity of a hospital ship. Many will remember that she so served in the Great War.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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108NOW HOSPITAL SHIP. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 11
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