SS Suevic

Suevic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line, the fifth and last of the Jubilee-class liners created for the Liverpool, Cape Town and Sydney service. At 12,531 gross register tons she was the largest of the class, launched on 8 December 1900, and she carried about 400 third-class passengers plus refrigerated holds able to stow 100,000 mutton carcasses and a hold for 20,000 bales of wool. She sailed on her maiden voyage to Sydney in March 1901 and was used as a Boer War troop carrier. On 17 March 1907, after navigational errors off the Lizard, she was wrecked near Plymouth, yet all of her 382 passengers and 141 crew were rescued in what was then the largest rescue of its kind. The hull was cut in two and a new bow fitted to the stern. She later became the Norwegian whaling factory ship Skytteren and was scuttled off Sweden in 1942.