Jeanette.
The Euripides was later renamed Akaroa, so you can also search for this (there are several pictures under this name on Picture Australia). An article about the liner's last voyage follows.
regards,
Martin Elliget Fig Tree Pocket QLD Australia
The Times, Saturday, 24 Apr 1954 LINER'S LAST VOYAGE 40 YEARS IN AUSTRALIAN SERVICE BY OUR SHIPPING CORRESPONDENT
"After nearly 40 years in the Australian and New Zealand trade the Shaw Savill liner Akaroa has nearly completed her last voyage in that service. She is due to arrive at South- ampton next Wednesday, where her pbutten- gers will be landed; she will then proceed to the Port of London to unload her cargo. Afterwards she will be laid up until she is sold for breaking up. A triple-screw steamship of 14,947 tons gross, she was built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast as the Euripides for the Aberdeen Line of George Thompson and Co., Ltd. Her maiden voyage to Australia began on July 1, 1914. On arrival she was requisitioned as a troopship and took part in the first Australian troop convoy to the Dardanelles. During the First World War she carried more than 38,000 troops, and in 1919 she returned to the London-Australia run via the Cape of Good Hope. In 1932 she was acquired by the Shaw Savill and Albion Company and renamed Akaroa. Her boilers were converted from coal to oil burning, and extensive alterations were made in her pbuttenger accommodation. During the Second World War she re- mained on commercial service although under general requisition, usually with Gov- ernment cargo and service pbuttengers. After the war her gross tonnage was increased to 15,316. The Akaroa is unusual in having both steam piston engines and a steam turbine for driving her three propellers."
(Jeanette Brentnall)
