SS Suevic

58°09′30″N 11°11′40″E / 58.15833°N 11.19444°E / 58.15833; 11.19444

SS Suevic
History
United Kingdom
Name	Suevic
Owner	White Star Line
Port of registry	Liverpool, England
Ordered	1899
Builder	Harland and Wolff shipyard, Belfast
Yard number	333
Launched	8 December 1900
Completed	9 March 1901
Maiden voyage	23 March 1901
Fate	Sold, 1928
Norway
Name	Skytteren
Owner	Finnhval A/S
In service	1928
Homeport	Tønsberg, Norway
Fate	Scuttled 1 April 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Jubilee-class ocean liner
Tonnage	12,531 GRT
Length	565 ft (172 m)
Beam	63.3 ft (19.3 m)
Depth	39.9 ft (12.2 m)
Installed power	Two Four-cylinder quadruple-expansion steam engines
Propulsion	Two propellers
Speed	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) service speed
Capacity	400 passengers 3rd class only

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-class ocean liners, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route, along with her sister ship Runic.^[1] 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.