TSS Maunganui
The TSS "Maunganui (later S/S "Cyrenia) was a passenger vessel built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and launched on 24 August 1911. Career. Launched in 1911 to carry the Royal Mail and served on the San Francisco and Sydney runs. She was employed as a troopship during World War I and World War II. She was sold to Cia Naviera del Atlantica, Piraeus in 1948 and renamed "Cyrenia". She was sold in 1949 to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines and undertook service from Genoa and Piraeus to Fremantle, Melbourne  and Sydney, carrying Greek, Italian and Jewish refugees and migrants. Fate. On 1 November 1956 she left Melbourne for the last time, arriving in Savona, Italy, on 6 February 1957 for ship breaking. Cultural legacy. In Greece the S/S "Cyrenia "is prominent due to Nikos Kavvadias' poem "The Seven Dwarves on the S/S Cyrenia () and Thanos Mikroutsikos' song mentioning the ship. Kavvadias was the ship's radio operator.