HMS Maine - Albert Bowers

Albert Bowers 1933 to 1939

The HMS MAINE Hospital ship,


HMS MAINE (1902) ex - Pacific Steam Navigation Company's 'PANAMA'.

Purchased 1920., converted 1921, Hospital ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

Builder Fairfield Co. Govan, 1902., Displacement : 10,100 tons., Dimensions
: length 401ft 3in (p.p)., beam 58ft 4in., draught 23ft 6in/34ft deep load.
Machinery : 2 shaft reciprocating triple expansion, 2 x double ended
boilers, 2 x single ended boilers, I.H.P. 4,000 = 13knots., Coal : 1,360
tons., Complement ?., single funnel.,
Arrived 8th July 1948 McLellan, Bo'ness for breaking up.

Photograph of this ship in the 1939 Jane's Fighting ship listed below (also
in 1944/45 edition).

source info :

British and Empire Warships of the Second World War by H.T. Lenton.,
(1998)., Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Ltd, Park House, 1 Russel
Gardens, London, NW11 9NN., ISBN 1 85367 277 7.


Ships of the Royal Navy (vol. 2) by J.J. Colledge., (1989)., Greenhill
Books, Lionel Leventhal Ltd, Park House, 1 Russel Gardens, London, NW11
9NN., ISBN 1 85367 028 6. (first published 1970 revised and expanded 1989).

Jane's Fighting Ships 1939, founded by Fred. T. Jane., (1971)., reprint by
David & Charles (publishers) Ltd. South Devon House, Newton Abbot, Devon.
ISBN 0 7153 5017 X.
(first published by Sampson Low, Marson, 1939).