SS Cretic
- Hanoverian (1902 )
- Mayflower (1903 )
- Devonian (1923 )
Registration Number: 115288
The Cretic was a 1902 put into service passenger ship that belonged from 1903 the British shipping company White Star Line, which used it as an ocean liner at various North Atlantic routes between Europe and North America. In 1929, the ship after 27 years of service in Scotland was scrapped.
History
The 13,507 -ton steam ship was built at the shipyard of Hawthorn, Leslie & Company in Hebburn English for the British shipping company Leyland Line, based in Liverpool. The 177.39 meters long and 18.38 meters wide vessel was built as an ocean steamer on the North Atlantic shipping routes and was to carry 260 first-class passengers. The ship was launched on February 25, 1902 from the pile and was baptized with the name Hanoverian. It had a chimney, four masts, twin propellers and three decks. It was with electric light, equipped cooling devices for transporting perishable foods as well as a double bottom. The coal was shoveled into three A lighter and three double ended boilers with a total of 27 fireplaces.
On July 19, 1902, the Hanoverian ran into left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Boston. The third and final voyage for the Leyland Line on this route began on 27 September 1902. 1903 the ship was sold to the Dominion Line, which renamed it in Mayflower and passenger capacity for 260 travelers of the First, 250 Second and 1000 Third Class introduced. On April 9, 1903, the Mayflower was in Liverpool to their first Atlantic crossing to Boston for the new owner. The seventh and last voyage on the route they took off on 22 October 1903.
Then the steamer was sold to the White Star Line and renamed Cretic. On 9 November 1903, the Cretic put to the first of ten crossings in the service of the White Star Line from Liverpool to Boston from. In November 1904, the first trip from Boston to Naples and Genoa took place back to Boston and New York. On November 21, 1911 put the ship in Genoa from the last time on this route. In March 1912, the Cretic drove for the first time from Genoa Naples directly to Boston ( without a stop in New York). On 30 January 1918, she was in Boston for the last time from Italy coming. From 1917 to 1919, the Cretic was under the Liner Requisition Theme. On September 5, 1919, the Cretic ran into Liverpool to New York on 24 September 1919, she was with a capacity of 300 passengers, the First, 210 Second and 800 third class back on the route New York - Naples - Exactly. On October 18, 1922, she presented for the last time to a crossing on the route from.
In 1923, the Cretic again. To their original owners, the Leyland Line, sold and received the new name Devonian Any modifications to the capacity to 12,153 GRT decreased. After the acquisition, the ship carried only 250 passengers in the car class. On 24 June 1923, the Devonian reached for the first time under new ownership the port of Boston. In April 1926, the economy class from the cabin class. On December 10, 1927, the Devonian put to a drive from New York to Plymouth from Antwerp. The Red Star Line had chartered for this voyage.
On March 9, 1928, the last voyage of the ocean liner from Antwerp via Southampton to New York ended. On March 23, 1928, the Devonian was steaming from New York to Philadelphia, and on September 15, 1928, she was in Boston for the last trip to Liverpool. In 1929, the ship was finally scrapped at P & W McLellan in Bo'ness (Scotland).