| SS Medic (1898) | |
|---|---|
 Postcard of SS Medic | |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | SS Medic |
| Owner: | White Star Line |
| Port of registry: | Liverpool |
| Builder: | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number: | 323 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1898 |
| Completed: | 6 July 1899 |
| In service: | August 1899 |
| Out of service: | 1927 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | Sold, 1928 |
| Career (Norway) |  |
| Name: | Hektoria |
| Owner: | N. R. Bugge |
| Acquired: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 11 September 1942 |
| General characteristics (as built)[2] | |
| Class & type: | Jubilee-class passenger-cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | 11,973 |
| Length: | 550 ft 2 in (167.69 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft 3 in (19.28 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 4-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Capacity: |
320 passengers 100,000 refrigerated carcasses |
SS Medic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line in 1899. Medic was one of five "Jubilee Class" ocean liners (the others being the Afric, Persic, Suevic and Runic) built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route.[2]
Medic, like her sisters, was a single-funnel liner which measured just under 12,000 tons and was configured to carry 320 steerage or third class passengers. Because these ships were launched in the last year of the 19th century, they were referred to as the "Jubilee Class".[2]
She served as an Australian troopship in the Boer war and also in WW1. In October 1900, while anchored in Neutral Bay, Sydney Harbour she was involved in the "Fort Denison Incident", a prank intended to fool locals into believing a Boer raiding party was attacking the city. The citizens were not amused, and White Star apologised and paid damages to the city.[3]
After a long life with White Star she was sold in 1928, renamed Hektoria, and converted to a whale factory ship. She was finally sunk by the U-boat German submarine U-608 on 11 September 1942 during the Atlantic Campaign of World War II[2] with the loss of one crewman. The remaining crew was picked up by the Canadian corvette, HMCS Arvida.[4]
References[]
- ↑ "Medic, White Star Line". norwayheritage.com. 2013. http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=medic. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Clarkson, Andrew (2013). "SS Medic". titanic-titanic.com. http://www.titanic-titanic.com/medic.shtml. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ↑ "NEW SOUTH WALES.". Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 12 October 1900. p. 5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9559607. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Hektoria (Whale factory ship) - Ships hit by U-boats". uboat.net. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2155.html. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
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