SS Ceramic (1912)
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| Name: | Ceramic |
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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 |
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| Fate: | Sunk by torpedo |
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| Length: | 655.1 ft (199.7 m) |
| Beam: | 69.4 ft (21.2 m) |
| Draught: | 47 ft 10 in (14.58 m) |
| Depth: | 43.8 ft (13.4 m) |
| Decks: | 4 |
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| Crew: | 264 crew + 14 DEMS gunners (1942) |
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SS Ceramic was a British 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. In 1934 Shaw, Savill & Albion Line took over White Star's Australia route and acquired Ceramic. The liner served as a troopship in both World Wars. She was sunk by a German submarine in 1942, leaving only one survivor from the 656 people aboard.
Harland and Wolff built Ceramic in Belfast, launching her on 11 December 1912 and completing her in 1913. She was delivered on 5 July and her total cost was £436,000.
Ceramic had two triple expansion engines, each with one high pressure, one medium pressure and two low pressure cylinders. Exhaust steam from the two engines' low pressure cylinders drove a single low-pressure steam turbine. Ceramic was propelled by three screws: the middle one driven by the low-pressure turbine and the port and starboard ones each driven by one of the reciprocating engines.
Ceramic had four decks and eight holds, and in her original configuration 38% of her cargo capacity was refrigerated.
Ceramic's maiden voyage began on 24 July 1913 when she left Liverpool for Australia. At the time she was the largest liner on the route between the two countries. In 1914 she was requisitioned for the First Australian Imperial Force as the troopship HMAT (His Majesty's Australian Transport) Ceramic, with the pennant number A40.
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