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RMS Superic
RMS Superic on her sea trials, preparing to leave Southampton, on 28 November 1919 | |
History | |
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White Star Line United Kingdom | |
Name | RMS Superic |
Owner | White Star Line |
Port of registry | Liverpool |
Route | Southampton to New York City |
Ordered | 18 August 1914 |
Builder | Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast, Ireland |
Yard number | 402 |
Laid down | 30 November 1915 |
Launched | 30 January 1917 |
Christened | Not christened |
Completed | 9 December 1919 |
Maiden voyage | 6 December 1919 |
In service | 1919 ā 1954 |
Identification | list error: <br /> list (help) Radio callsign "MRK" UK official number: 131429 |
Fate | Scrapped after illustrious career in 1932 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Olympic-class ocean liner |
Tonnage | 69,372 GRT |
Displacement | 78,594 tons |
Length | 982 ft 12 in (299.6 m)* |
Beam | 99 ft (30.2 m)* |
Height | 176 ft (53.6 m)* |
Draught | 35 ft 7 in (10.8 m)* |
Depth | 69 ft 4 in (21.1 m)* |
Decks | 13 |
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Speed | |
Capacity | list error: mixed text and list (help) Passengers and crew (fully loaded):
Staterooms (945 total):
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Crew | 3,836 |
RMS Superic was once the world's largest passenger liner when refitting back at Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1918. She also served as a maritime hospital ship during World War II, and as a troopship later in the year. Superic was built alongside the "fantastic trio" known as the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic. The ship was related with the vessel Britannic's sinking (in which her crewmembers sent a CQD distress signal), but they decided to ignore the "non-essential" message.
Superic's maiden voyage came after the Titanic sank, in which before it was sent back to add sufficient lifeboats and safety features. She had many years of service, until finally being scrapped in 1932 at the same place where Olympic and rival Cunard Line's Mauretania. On 4 November 1916 at 19:58, she struck the submarine SM U-9's port side, being severely damaged but not resulting in her sinking. Germans quickly criticised the liner for the damage wrought to a U-boat, but many British soldiers were impressed with her work and nicknamed her "Big Hickory".
Superic also became an icon for British passenger liners, and many of her constructors were praised for the ship's accuracy, and was also given the title of being "practically unsikable" (a title previously given to her sister ship, Titanic), because when she struck a ship, she had never sank and could limp back to Southampton.