The ss corinthic was a 1902 posed in service passenger ship of the British shipping company White Star Line , the passenger and freight traffic from the UK to New Zealand was used. In 1931 the ship was decommissioned and scrapped.
The ship
William Hall-Jones (fourth from left) with other New Zealand politicians on board the Corinthic (1908)
The 12,231 GRT steamship Corinthic was built at the Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff and was launched on April 10, 1902. The Corinthic was the middle in a class of three sister ships that were built for passenger and cargo service to New Zealand. The other two were the Athenic (1902) and the Ionic (1903).
The Corinthic was powered by eight-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines from Harland & Wolff, which acted on two propellers and made 604 nominal horsepower. The passenger capacities were 121 in the first class, 117 in the second class and 450 in the third class. The ship was equipped with electric lights and refrigerated chambers for transporting frozen meat.
On 20 November 1902, ran ss corinthic in London on her maiden voyage to Cape Town and Wellington from. She stayed on the New Zealand route until 1917, like her sister ships, fell under the Liner Requisition Theme (roughly "ship acquisition program") of the British government. However, she only transported troops in third-class accommodations. The first and second classes were reserved for civilian passengers.
At the end of 1918 she was returned to her owners and comprehensively repaired. On January 20, 1920, the Corinthic ran for her first voyage after the war from Great Britain over the Panama Canal to Wellington. In 1923 she rescued the crew of the Newfoundland schooner Marguerite Ryan , who was in distress. On a trip in 1926 they competed with the passenger steamer Remuera of New Zealand Shipping Company to the faster crossing. Both ships were in visual contact the entire time and entered Wellington at the same time. On August 14, 1931, put ss corinthic in Southampton from their last trip to Wellington. In December 1931 she was sold to the Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Company for demolition and broken up in Blyth .
