SS Persic
SS Persic | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | SS Persic |
| Owner | White Star Line |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 325 |
| Launched | 7 September 1899 |
| Completed | 16 November 1899 |
| In service | December 1899 |
| Out of service | September 1926 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, July 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Jubilee-class passenger-cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 11,973 GRT |
| Length | 550 ft 2 in (167.69 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft 3 in (19.28 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 4-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, 2 shafts |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
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SS Persic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line, built by Harland and Wolff in 1899. She was one of the five Jubilee-class ships (the others being the Afric, Medic, Suevic and Runic) built specifically to service the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. The voyage took six weeks.
Persic was the third Jubilee-class ship to be built for the Australia service, and was launched at Belfast on 7 September 1899, entering service on 7 December that year. Persic, like her sisters was a single-funnel liner, which had capacity for 320 third class passengers, and also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat.