SS Ceramic
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SS Ceramic was an ocean liner built in Belfast for White Star Line in 1912–13 and operated on the Liverpool – Australia route. Ceramic was the largest ship serving the route until P&O introduced RMS Mooltan in 1923.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Ceramic |
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Port of registry |
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Route | Liverpool – South Africa – Australia |
Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
Cost | £436,000 |
Yard number | 432 |
Launched | 11 December 1912 |
Completed | 5 July 1913 |
Maiden voyage | 24 July 1913 |
Refit | 1920, 1936 |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo from U-515, 6–7 December 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 655.1 ft (199.7 m) |
Beam | 69.4 ft (21.2 m) |
Draught | 47 ft 10 in (14.58 m)[1] |
Depth | 43.8 ft (13.4 m) |
Decks | 3 as built, later 4 |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 264 crew + 14 DEMS gunners (1942) |
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Armament |
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In 1934 Shaw, Savill & Albion Line absorbed White Star's Australia service and acquired Ceramic. The liner served as a troopship in both World Wars. In 1942 a U-boat sank her, leaving only one survivor from the 656 people aboard.
This was the first of two ships to be called Ceramic. The second was a Shaw, Savill & Albion refrigerated cargo steamship that was built in England in 1948 and scrapped in 1972.[2]