White Star Line
SS Suevic
British and Norwegian Jubilee-class ocean liner
History
SS Suevic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. Suevic was the fifth and last of the Jubilee-classs, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route, along with her sister ship SS Runic. In 1907, she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name Skytteren, she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany.
Text: Wikipedia — SS Suevic, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Also Known As
- Skytteren