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RFA Maine (1887)
RFA ''Maine'' was a hospital ship of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary, which served during the Second Boer War, up until the eve of World War I.
The first ship to bear the name was the former cattle/passenger ship ''Swansea'', built by William Gray & Company of Hartlepool, and launched on 8 June 1887. Owned and operated by Bernard N. Baker's Atlantic Transport Line, ''Swansea'' was renamed ''Maine'' in 1888.
==Conversion to hospital ship==
In October 1899 the Boer War broke out in South Africa and Baker immediately offered the British Admiralty the use of a vessel as an hospital ship. Funding for the conversion was raised by the "American Ladies Hospital Ship Society" based in London and headed by Jennie Churchill. The ''Maine'' sailed for South Africa on 23 December 1899, with Jennie Churchill aboard, and arrived at Durban on 23 January 1900. One of the earliest beneficiaries was Jennie's younger son Jack, wounded during the Relief of Ladysmith. After only four months, she returned to UK and then went to China for the Boxer Rebellion.
The following year she was again back in the UK, and in March 1901 she served in the Mediterranean as hospital ship to the Mediterranean Squadron.
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