SS Ionic (1903)

Registration Number: 115337

The Ionic (II ) was a 1903 put into service passenger ship in the British shipping company White Star Line, which was used in passenger and freight traffic from the UK to New Zealand. 1934, the Ionic in the wake of the dissolution of the White Star Line of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Steamship Company was purchased and placed out of service in 1936. In 1937, she was scrapped in Japan.

The ship

The 12,232 -ton steamship Ionic was built on the Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff and ran on 22 May in 1902 batch. The Ionic was recently completed by three sister ships that were built for the passenger and cargo service to New Zealand. The other two were the Athenic and Corinthic, both of which were put into service in 1902. The Ionic ran out on her maiden voyage to Wellington on 16 January 1903.

The ship was powered by eight-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines by Harland & Wolff, who worked on two propellers and 604 nominal horsepower contributed. There were a maximum of 121 passengers in first class, 117 second class and 450 in the carriage in the third class. It was equipped with electric lights and refrigeration equipment for the transport of frozen meat. The ship had four decks and four poles in order to continue in the event of an engine failure, the drive under full sail can. However, this was never required.

The Ionic was the first ship on the New Zealand route, which was equipped with a Marconi apparatus for wireless radio. She remained on this route until it was used in 1914 following the outbreak of the First World War as a troop transport of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force ( NZEF ). In 1915 she was narrowly missed by a torpedo in the Mediterranean. 1917 was the ship under the provisions of the Liner Requisition Theme ( roughly "Ship Acquisition Program"). On 31 January 1919, the Ionic turned over the Panama Canal back to her old New Zealand route.

1927 rescued the crew of the fishing boat Ionic Daisy, who had run in front of the Grand Banks due. 1929, the price ranges cabin class and third class were introduced. When the White Star Line was taken over in 1934 by the Cunard Line, the Ionic was sold to Shaw, Savill & Albion Steamship Company. In 1936, she became its subdivision Norfolk & North American Steamship Company assumed. On September 9, 1936, the Ionic ran out for their last ride. The following year she was scrapped in Osaka ( Japan). Your ship's bell is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.