Magnetic (ship)

Magnetic

Model of the Magnetic in the Merseyside Maritime Museum

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Ryde (1932-1935) Ship type Tender ship home port Liverpool Shipping company White Star Line Shipyard Harland & Wolff , Belfast Build number 269 Launch March 28, 1891 Commissioning June 6, 1891 Decommissioning August 1935 Whereabouts Wrecked in Port Glasgow in 1935

Ship dimensions and crew length 51.97 m ( Lüa ) width 10.03 m measurement 619 GT

Machine system machine Triple expansion steam engine Machine performance 1,200 kW (1,632 hp) Top speed 13.5 kn (25 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1200

Others

The Magnetic was a tender ship of the British White Star Line put into service in 1891, which was in service for the shipping company in the port of Liverpool for over 40 years . The tender was sold in 1932 and remained in service as Ryde for another three years . In 1935 the ship went to Port Glasgow to be demolished .

history

The Olympic (left) next to the Titanic in March 1912. The Magnetic can be seen to the left of the Olympic

The Magnetic was built under hull number 269 in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast , which has built a large number of ships of the White Star Line. She was launched on March 28, 1891 and was put into service as a tender for the shipping company in the port of Liverpool on June 6 of the same year.

In the following years the Magnetic was, among other things, regularly used as a tender ship for the Majestic and her sister ship Teutonic . After the Baltic went into service , it was almost exclusively its tender. The Olympic is one of the most famous ships called by Magnetic . A well-known photograph from March 1912 shows the tender next to the Olympic and her sister ship Titanic, which is in the equipment dock .

In addition to being used in tenders, the Magnetic was occasionally used by the White Star Line as a tug and on special occasions as an excursion boat on the River Mersey . On June 26, 1897, she accompanied the Teutonic on a naval parade at Spithead in honor of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation .

On February 17, 1915, the Magnetic collided with the schooner Kate , which then sank. Of the four crew members on board the schooner, three were killed. Another accident occurred on October 3, 1925, when a fire broke out on board the Magnetic and the ship was grounded by the crew to prevent a possible sinking. The tender was repaired in the home port of Liverpool.

After 41 years in service for the White Star Line, the Magnetic was sold to the Liverpool-based Alexandra Towing Company in December 1932 and renamed Ryde . She remained in use as a tender for another two years before she was used as an excursion steamer in Llandudno from 1934 . The 44-year-old ship was finally decommissioned in August 1935 and sold to Port Glasgow for demolition in October of the same year.

literature

• Richard De Kerbrech: Ships of the White Star Line . Ian Allan Publishing, Shepperton 2009, ISBN 978-0-7110-3366-5 .

Web links

Commons : Magnetic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Magnetic in a list of all the tender of the White Star Line (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard De Kerbrech: Ships of the White Star Line . Ian Allan Publishing, Shepperton 2009, ISBN 978-0-7110-3366-5 , page 55.