SS Bovic
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = SS Bovic.png | Ship caption = SS Bovic }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United Kingdom | Ship flag = {{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = * SS Bovic (1892–1922)
| Ship owner = * White Star Line (1892–1922)
| Ship operator = | Ship registry = | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Harland and Wolff, Belfast | Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = 252 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 28 June 1892 | Ship completed = 22 August 1892 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = 26 August 1892 | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship fate = Scrapped, 1928 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Naronic Class | Ship tonnage = {{GRT|6,583}} | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|470|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|53|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship draft = | Ship depth = {{convert|35.6|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} | Ship decks = | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = 2 × reciprocating steam engines, 2 screws | Ship speed = {{convert|13|kn|km/h|1}} | Ship capacity = 15 Passengers, 1,050 Animals (1892-1918) | Ship crew = | Ship notes = }} |
SS Bovic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line.
History
A sister ship to the {{SS|Naronic||2}}, the ship was launched on 28 June 1892, completed on 22 August 1892{{cite book|last1=McCluskie|first1=Tom|title=The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff|date=2013|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|isbn=9780752488615|page=122}} and began her maiden voyage on 26 August 1892, sailing from Liverpool to New York City. The ship was intended for the Atlantic cattle trade and able to carry about 1,050 cattle on the upper main deck and had special accommodation for horses amidships.{{cite magazine |date=1 August 1892 |title=Bovic |magazine=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect |pages=239–240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA239 |accessdate=20 November 2018}} She was designed to carry livestock, but with capacity for twelve passengers.{{cite web |url= http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=bovic |title=Bovic, White Star Line |work=norwayheritage.com |year=2012 |accessdate=4 November 2012}}{{cite book|last1=Kerbrech|first1=Richard De|title=Ships of the White Star Line|date=2009|publisher=Ian Allan Publishing|pages=57–58|isbn=978-0-7110-3366-5}}
On 4 August 1900, Bovic was docked at Pier 49 at New York Harbor, adjacent to the White Star Line's flagship Oceanic, when a major fire broke out in one of her cargo holds, which threatened to spread to Oceanic. The fire was eventually brought under control before it could spread.
In February 1914, she was seconded onto a new cargo service from the Port of Manchester to New York, and this required all four of her masts to be cut down to the height of her funnels so she could pass under the bridges of the Manchester Ship Canal.
On 19 August 1915, while off the coast of southern Ireland, she narrowly avoided destruction by what is believed to be the German U-boat {{SMU|U-24||2}}, which had sunk four other vessels, including White Star Line's {{SS|Arabic|1902|2}} in the same area that day. Bovic was pursued by the submarine, but managed to escape.{{cite web |url= http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSMN1507.htm |title=British Merchant Navy Ships Lost and Damaged at Sea in World War I |first=Gordon |last=Smith |work=naval-history.net |year=2011 |accessdate=4 November 2012}}
In April 1917 she was requisitioned for war service.
She resumed White Star Line service between 1919, continuing to sail between Liverpool and New York until April 1922. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000331/19220301/188/0008
In April 1922 she was sold to the Leyland Line and renamed Colonian, and her masts were back to their normal height. She ran aground later that year in the St Lawrence river, but was refloated without damage. {{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Post_Magazine_and_Insurance_Monitor/hC4xAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq= |title=The Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor |date=1923 |publisher=Buckley Press |language=en}} Two years later, her deck and side plating was redone in Liverpool by Harland and Wolff,{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Shipbuilder_and_Marine_Engine_builde/-dTNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq= |title=The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-builder |date=1924 |publisher=Shipbuilder Press |language=en}} and in the same year, rescued the crew of the sinking American steamship Santiago.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001168/19240314/083/0004 She was scrapped at Rotterdam in 1928.
References
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{{White Star Line ships}}
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Category:Ships built in Belfast
Category:Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships of the Leyland Line