The SS New Australia was a ship with a long and interesting history.  She bore three names during her life, and a brief account of her years of service is given in the following pages.

The SS Monarch of Bermuda was one of a pair of luxury cruise liners of the 1930's which serviced the package tour trade between New York and Hamilton, Bermuda.  At the outbreak of World War II, both ships were pressed into very different roles.  you may read about this gracious and elegant ship, and her sister ship the Queen of Bermuda here.

The SS New Australia rose from the charred remains of a burnt out wreck which had been written off and destined for scrap.  She became a migrant ship, transporting thousands of British settlers and their families to a new life in Australia and also, as a troopship, played an important role in Australian military action in the Korean and Malayan conflicts.  Read all about her here.

The QSS Arkadia was the third, and last, incarnation of this wonderful ship.  Again saved from the wreckers yard, she became a Trans-Atlantic passenger liner, in the last few years of the era of the Ocean Liners, before finally succumbing to the wrecker's hammer in a sad coincidence.  Read of the last phase in the life of a true Monarch of the Seas.