SS Wakool was a refrigerated cargo liner that was launched in England in 1898.

In 1917 the French government bought her and renamed her Le Myre de Villers.

[6] On 14 October 1899, the Admiralty chartered Wakool as Transport number 55 for the Second Boer War.

The Admiralty paid a total of £188,294 for her charter, fittings, bunkering, and harbour dues.

[6] She was renamed Kwanto Maru; registered in Dairen in the Kwantung Leased Territory (now Dalian in China); and her code letters were QBGP.

[14] In the First World War, Japanese forces used her as a depot ship; particularly during the siege of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in 1914.

[15] In 1917 the French government bought Kwanto Maru and renamed her Le Myre de Villers.

[3][6] Charles Le Myre de Vilers (1833–1918) had been Governor of Cochinchina and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Annam from 1879 to 1882.