SS Medic

SS Medic Underway
History
United Kingdom
Name	Medic
Owner	White Star Line
Port of registry	Liverpool
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	323
Launched	15 December 1898
Completed	6 July 1899
In service	August 1899
Out of service	1927
Identification	Official number: 110573 Call sign: RDHF[1]
Fate	Sold, 1928
Norway
Name	Hektoria
Owner	A/S Hektor (N. Bugge)
Port of registry	Tønsberg
Acquired	1928
Fate	Sold in 1932
United Kingdom
Name	Hektoria
Operator	Hektor Whaling Ltd
Port of registry	London
Acquired	1932
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by U-211 and U-608, 12 September 1942
General characteristics (as built)[2]
Class and type	Jubilee-class passenger-cargo ship
Tonnage	11,985 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	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Capacity	320 passengers 100,000 refrigerated carcasses

SS Medic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1899. Medic was one of five Jubilee-class ocean liners (the others being the Afric, Persic, Runic and Suevic) built specifically to service the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route.^[2] The ship's name pertained to the ancient Persian region of Media and was pronounced Mee-dic.^[3]

Medic was the second Jubilee-class ship to be built for the Australia service. Like her sisters she was a single funnel liner, measuring just under 12,000 gross register tons (GRT), which had capacity for 320 passengers in third class on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat.^[3][2]

After a long career with White Star, Medic was sold in 1928 and was converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed Hektoria, she remained in service in this role until being torpedoed and sunk during World War II in the Atlantic Ocean whilst sailing in a convoy in 1942.