Built for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line, the Dominion Monarch is seen at the launching, at Wallsend-on-Tyne on July 27. This 27,000-ton vessel will be the most powerful quadruple screw motor-liner afloat, and will operate a new service between the Dominion and Britain, via South Africa and Australia. She will be one of the largest and most powerful ships ever engaged on the New Zealand run, with a schedule for arrival in New Zealand thirty-five days after leaving her English port.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 24

Built for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line, the Dominion Monarch is seen at the launching, at Wallsend-on-Tyne on July 27. This 27,000----ton vessel will be the most powerful quadruple screw motor-liner afloat, and will operate a new service between the Dominion and Britain, via South Africa and Australia. She will be one of the largest and most powerful ships ever engaged on the New Zealand run, with a schedule for arrival in New Zealand thirty-five days after leaving her English port.