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Ceramic
History
SS CeramicUnited Kingdom
NameCeramic
Owner
  • Ocean Steam Nav Co (1913–34)
  • Shaw, Savill & Albion (1934–42)
Operator
  • White Star Line (1913–34)
  • Shaw, Savill & Albion (1934–42)
Port of registry
  • Liverpool (1913–34)
  • Southampton (1934–42)
RouteLiverpool – South Africa – Australia
BuilderHarland and Wolff, Belfast
Cost£436,000
Yard number432
Launched11 December 1912
Completed5 July 1913
Maiden voyage24 July 1913
Refit1920, 1936
Identification
  • UK Official number 135474
  • Code letters JCNK (until 1933)
  • Call sign MCP (1913–30)
  • Call sign GLST (1930–42)
FateSunk by torpedo from U-515, 6–7 December 1942
General characteristics
TypeCargo liner
Tonnage
  • 1913–20: 18,481 GRT, 11,729 NRT
  • 1920–36: 18,495 GRT, 11,718 NRT
  • 1936–42: 18,713 GRT, 11,582 NRT
Length655.1 ft (199.7 m)
Beam69.4 ft (21.2 m)
Draught47 ft 10 in (14.58 m)[1]
Depth43.8 ft (13.4 m)
Decks3 as built, later 4
Installed power
  • 9,000 ihp (6,711 kW) as built,
  • 1,692 NHP after 1936 refit
Propulsion
  • 2 × Triple expansion engines
  • 1 × Low pressure Turbine
  • 3 Screw propellers
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity
  • 600 3rd class passengers as built
    • refrigerated cargo:
  • 321,306 cu ft (9,098 m3)
Crew264 crew + 14 DEMS gunners (1942)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Wireless direction finding by 1930
  • Echo sounding device by 1933
Armament
  • Two stern-mounted
  • QF 4.7 inch (120mm) guns

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.

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference LR37 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Ceramic (1948)". Shipping and Shipbuilding. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

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