SS Romanic (eng)

Statistics

Gross Tonnage - 11,394 tons
Dimensions - 167.72 x 18.07m (550.3 x 59.3ft)
Number of funnels - 1
Number of masts - 2
Construction - Steel
Propulsion - Twin screw
Engines - Eight cylindered triple expansion engines
Service speed - 15 knots
Builder - Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Launch date - 7 April 1898
Passenger accommodation - 200 1st class, 200 2nd class, 800 3rd class

Details of Career

The ship was originally launched for the Dominion Line and was named the New England. It made its maiden voyage for this company on 30 June from Liverpool to Boston. It continued to serve this route until September 1903 when it was transferred to the White Star Line and renamed the Romanic. It made its maiden voyage for White Star on 19 November on the Liverpool-Boston route, a route previously ignored by the company. By December it had begun to sail from Boston to the Mediterranean, calling at Naples and Genoa.

In March 1912 it made voyage from Glasgow to Boston and was then sold to the Allan Line. It was renamed the Scandinavian and began sailing from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal in May of that year. In 1914 it was taken over under the liner requisition scheme and was used to help transport the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Its service as a troopship continued until 1919. By May 1920 it was operating on a new route, from Antwerp to Montreal. In July 1922 the Romanic was laid up at Falmouth because the company had too many ships to operate efficiently. In July 1923 it was sold, first, to a Dutch and, then, to a German shipbreakers and was finally broken up in Hamburg during October.