SS Ceramic

SS Ceramic was an ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line, launched on 11 December 1912 and completed in July 1913 as hull 432. She operated on the Liverpool to Australia route and was the largest ship serving it until P&O introduced Mooltan in 1923. Three propellers were driven by a pair of four-cylinder triple expansion engines, with a low-pressure steam turbine on the middle screw, the arrangement tested on Laurentic and used for the Olympic class. In 1934 Shaw, Savill and Albion took over White Star's Australia service and acquired her. She served as a troopship in both World Wars, and on 6 and 7 December 1942 the German submarine U-515 torpedoed and sank her in the mid-Atlantic, leaving one survivor from the 656 people aboard.