Ship Details
Rig
Ocean Liner
Built
1899
Built In
Tonnage
17272
Built By
Demise
ran aground in 1914 and hulk salvaged in 1979;
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Description
RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901.[1] At the outbreak of World War I she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. On 8 August 1914 she was commissioned into Royal Navy service.
On 25 August 1914, the newly designated HMS Oceanic departed Southampton to patrol the waters from the North Scottish mainland to the Faroes. On 8 September she ran aground and was wrecked off the island of Foula, near the Shetland Islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Oceanic_(1899) (accessed on 20/6/2018);
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