Provenance: Private Collection, London Illustrated: p. 236 Marcus King, Painting New Zealand for the World, Peter Alsop, Warren Feeney, Potton & Burton, 2015

The quadruple screw motor vessel Dominion Monarch was the most powerful ocean liner in the world and in her time, the largest ship in the Australasian trade. With a unique passenger to crew ratio, Dominion Monarch offered a quality of service that has seldom been equalled. She was a most unusual ship; her design was that of a very large cargo-passenger liner, a factor emphasised by her comparatively small passenger complement. Although other vessels of her type had been built previously, and were ordered after her, Dominion Monarch was the largest liner of this format ever built.