SS Cretic
{{Short description|Ocean liner (1902–1929)}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = SS Cretic.jpg | Ship caption = SS Cretic }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United Kingdom | Ship flag = {{Shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} | Ship name = * Hanoverian (1902–03)
| Ship namesake = | Ship owner = International Mercantile Marine Company | Ship operator = * Leyland Line (1902–03, 1923–29)
| Ship registry = Liverpool | Ship route = | Ship ordered = | Ship awarded = | Ship builder = R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Hebburn | Ship original cost = | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = 25 February 1902 | Ship sponsor = | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = 19 July 1902 | Ship out of service = September 1928 | Ship renamed = | Ship reclassified = | Ship refit = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship homeport = | Ship identification = * UK official number 115288
| Ship motto = | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Ship type = Ocean liner | Ship tonnage = {{GRT|13507}}, {{NRT|8663}} | Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{cvt|582.0|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{cvt|60.3|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = | Ship depth = {{cvt|38.3|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth = | Ship decks = 3 | Ship deck clearance = | Ship power = 1,269 NHP | Ship propulsion = 2 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, 1,269 nhp, 2 screws | Ship speed = {{Convert|15|kn|lk=in}}{{cite web |url= http://www.titanic-titanic.com/cretic.shtml |title=Cretic |first=Andrew |last=Clarkson |work=titanic-titanic.com |year=2012 |accessdate=19 November 2012}} | Ship range = | Ship endurance = | Ship boats = | Ship capacity = * 1,550 passengers:
| Ship troops = | Ship crew = | Ship armament = | Ship armour = | Ship notes = }} |
SS Cretic was an ocean liner built in 1902. She was operated by several shipping lines, all of which were part of the IMM Co., under several names in her career, which ended when she was scrapped in 1929.
Ship history
The steel-hulled ship was built by R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd. of Hebburn for Frederick Leyland & Co. and launched on 25 February 1902 as Hanoverian. The 13,507-ton ship was 582 feet long, and 60 feet in the beam. She was powered by two 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, delivering 1,269 nhp to two screws.{{cite web |url= http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/H-Ships/hanoverian1902.html |title=Hanoverian (1902) |work=tynebuiltships.co.uk |year=2012 |accessdate=19 November 2012}}
In July 1902 she serves Leyland Line, for three voyages between Liverpool and Boston before the line's buyout by IMM Co. in October 1902.{{cite web |url=http://www.red-duster.co.uk/WSTAR7.htm |title=The White Star Line: Cretic |work=The Merchant Navy Association |year=2010 |accessdate=19 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303114840/http://www.red-duster.co.uk/WSTAR7.htm |archivedate=3 March 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
Hanoverian was transferred to the Dominion Line and renamed Mayflower, entering service between Liverpool and Boston in April 1903. In November 1903 she was transferred again, this time to the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company's White Star Line, and was renamed Cretic. Initially remaining on the Liverpool-Boston route, in November 1904 she was transferred to routes between the Mediterranean and New York City, finally returning to the Liverpool-Boston route in 1910.
In 1917 she was taken over by the British government under their Liner Requisition Scheme to serve as a troopship in World War I. On 5 April 1918 Cretic, {{SS|Lapland||2}}, and {{SS|Justicia||2}} sailed from Long Island City, New York, with the three battalions of the U.S. 308th Infantry Regiment aboard. On Cretic, the 2,032 men of the 2nd Battalion found that there was only accommodation for 1,500, so the troops were forced to eat and sleep in shifts until arriving at Liverpool on 19 April.{{cite web |url=http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/miles2.htm |title=History of the 308th Infantry |first=L. Wardlaw |last=Miles |work=longwood.k12.ny.us |year=2005 |accessdate=19 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115063430/http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/miles2.htm |archivedate=15 January 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
Cretic returned to commercial service in September 1919 on the White Star Line's Mediterranean service. In 1923 Cretic was transferred back to the Leyland Line, and renamed Devonian served on the Liverpool-Boston route until the end of her career in September 1928, apart from making three voyages under charter to the Red Star Line from Antwerp to New York in 1927-28. In 1929 she was broken up by P & W McLellan of Bo’ness, Scotland.
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url= http://www.greatships.net/cretic.html |title=S.S. Cretic / S.S. Devonian |work=greatships.net |year=2011 |accessdate=19 November 2012}}
{{White Star Line ships}}
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Category:Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Category:Ships built on the River Tyne
Category:Ships of the Dominion Line
Category:Ships of the Leyland Line