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SS ''Sophocles'' was an 12,300-ton ocean liner of the Aberdeen Line launched in 1921, and later sold to the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. ==Ship history== ''Sophocles'' was built at the Harland and Wolff yard in Belfast. She and her sister ship SS ''Diogenes'', like other Aberdeen Line ships were conceived primarily as cargo vessels. ''Sophocles'' had accommodation for 130 first class and 420 third class passengers. In 1926, ''Sophocles'' and ''Diogenes'' were chartered by Shaw, Savill & Albion for the New Zealand trade. The third class accommodation was greatly improved and both ships benefitted from conversion from coal burning to oil, which brought an increase in speed to 15 knots, for the cost of £70,000 each. At this time ''Sophocles'' was renamed ''Tamaroa'' and ''Diogenes'' was renamed '. During World war II both ''Tamaroa'' and her sister ship were pressed into service as troopships. ''Tamaroa'' served in the North African campaign. At the end of hostilities, both vessels were refitted for tourist class only and served on the UK-Panama canal-New Zealand route until their scrapping in 1957. In 1945, ''Mataroa'' made two famous journeys: * In August 1945, the ''Mataroa'' was chartered to transport from Marseille to Haifa 173 Jewish children of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, who had family in Palestine. She later transported survivors of Bergen-Belsen. * In late December 1945, the ''Mataroa'' brought from Greece to Taranto in southern Italy a number of Greek artists and intellectuals Greek aiming to reach Paris, in France, in the context of the Greek civil war. The vast majority were fellows of France. This trip was organized by the then Director of the , philhellene Octave Merlier, and his deputy Roger Milliex, husband of Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex. Some of the passengers became internationally recognised artists, scientists or intellectuals, including: architect George Candilis, artists Constantine Andreou & , philosophers Kostas Axelos, Cornelius Castoriadis & , linguist Emmanuel Kriaras, filmmaker Ado Kyrou, physician Miltiadès Papamiltiadès. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Sophocles (1921)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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