English: Frederick Wilkinson took this photograph of the Niagara departing Sydney for Vancouver on Thurdsay 28 August 1924. The passenger liner was active on the Pacific trade route from 1912 until it was requisitioned for service during World War I and II. RMS Niagara was an Ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and used for transporting passengers and mail on the trans- Pacific trade route. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company. During World War II Niagara was in service with the Canadian-Australasian Line from Auckland, New Zealand, to Suva and Vancouver. She sank on 19 June 1940 after she struck a mine laid by Germans off the north coast of New Zealand.