SS Medic

SS Medic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line, one of the five Jubilee-class liners, with Afric, Persic, Runic and Suevic, built for the Liverpool, Cape Town and Sydney route. She was launched on 15 December 1898, but her completion was delayed until July 1899 so that improvements made to her earlier sister Afric could be incorporated. A single-funnel ship of just under 12,000 gross register tons, she carried 320 third class passengers on three decks and had seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for Australian meat. After a long career with White Star she was sold in 1928, converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed Hektoria, and in September 1942 she was sunk by torpedoes from German U-boats while sailing in an Atlantic convoy.