SS Megantic

SS Megantic was a British transatlantic ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff on slipway number seven of its South Yard in Belfast, launched in 1908 and completed on 3 June 1909. She and her sister Laurentic were ordered in 1907 by Dominion Line but completed for White Star Line, and they were the largest ships on the route between Great Britain and Canada. Megantic had a conventional twin screw installation driven by quadruple-expansion engines that produced 1,180 nominal horsepower and 17 knots, while Laurentic combined piston engines with a low-pressure turbine and proved the more economical, which shaped the later Olympic-class design. Megantic ran between Liverpool and Quebec, carried Canadian and American troops from 1917, and in 1910 brought the murder suspect Hawley Harvey Crippen back to Britain. She was laid up in 1931 and scrapped in 1933.