SS Corinthic (1902)

Registration Number: 115296

The Corinthic was a 1902 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. 1931, the ship was taken out of service and scrapped.

The ship

The 12,231 -ton steamship Corinthic was built on the Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff and launched on April 10, 1902 from the stack. The Corinthic was the medium in a class of three sister ships that were built for the passenger and cargo service to New Zealand. The other two were the Athenic (1902 ) and Ionic (1903 ).

The Corinthic was powered by eight-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines by Harland & Wolff, who worked on two propellers and 604 nominal horsepower contributed. The passenger capacity was 121 passengers in first class, 117 second class and 450 third class. The ship was equipped with electric lighting and cooling chambers for transport of frozen meat.

On November 20, 1902, the Corinthic ran in London on her maiden voyage to Cape Town and Wellington. It remained on the New Zealand route, until, like her sister ships under the Liner Requisition Theme fell ( roughly "Ship Acquisition Program") of the British government in 1917. It transported troops but only in the accommodation of the Third Class. The First and Second Classes were civilian passengers reserved.

The end of 1918, she was again handed over to their owners and comprehensively looked after. On 20 January 1920, the Corinthic ran to her first trip to the war of Great Britain over the Panama Canal to Wellington from. In 1923 she rescued the crew of the Newfoundland schooner Marguerite Ryan, who was in distress. On a trip in 1926, she competed with the passenger steamer Remuera New Zealand Shipping Company to a faster crossing. Both ships were the whole time in sight and ran at the same time in Wellington. On August 14, 1931 put the Corinthic in Southampton on her last trip to Wellington. In December 1931 she was sold for demolition at the Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Company and scrapped at Blyth.