SS Persic

Registration Number: 110620

The Persic was a 1899 put into service passenger ship in the British shipping company White Star Line, which was used in passenger and freight traffic from the UK via Cape Town to Australia. It was scrapped in 1927.

The ship

The 11,973 -ton, built of steel steamer Persic was built on the Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff. She was the last completed of three sister ships, which were unofficially called The Jubilee Class ( "Jubilee Class"), which was seen as a sign of anticipation for the approaching turn of the century. The other two ships were the Afric and the Medic. With these three ships, the White Star Line opened its passenger and cargo services to Australia. This step proved to be so successful that the shipping company in 1900 completed the Jubilee Class with the Runic and Suevic.

The 173.7 meters long and 19.3 meters wide ship had three decks, one funnel, four masts. The Persic was powered with an eight-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engine by Harland & Wolff, which had two propellers and 5000 PSi made ​​. The top speed was 13.5 knots. There were 320 passengers are transported in the cabin class. In addition, the ship has seven cargo holds its disposal. Cargo and luggage could be loaded with a total of 21 derricks. The daily coal consumption was 80 tons.

On September 7, 1899, the Persic ran into Belfast from the stack and on 16 November it was the White Star Line passed. On December 7, 1899 put the steamer in Liverpool on its maiden voyage on Cape Town to Sydney from. On this trip it carried troops for use in the Boer War. In Cape Town, broke her rudder, so that the onward journey was delayed until Harland & Wolff was able to supply a new one. In January 1900, the first crossing was completed.

On 26 October 1900, the Persic took on the crew of the schooner got into fire Madura. From 1917 to 1919 she was under as well as its sister ships, the Liner Requisition Theme. On September 7, 1918, she was torpedoed 40 miles northwest of the Scilly Isles by the German submarine UB 87 ( Lieutenant Karl Petri ) 2800 American soldiers on board, but could run into the next port. In 1920, she was again the White Star Line pass and modernized. From there was only room for 260 passengers, the cabin class. 1926 came during renovation work in Govan to irreparable damage to the machine. After their last exit on 26 September 1926, the Persic was launched. On July 7, 1927 she was sold for demolition and steamed from the Mersey by Hendrik -Ido- Ambacht in the Netherlands, where she was scrapped.