TSS Themistocles

History
Name: SS Themistocles
Operator:
Route: London to Cape Town & Australia
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number: 412
Launched: 22 September 1910
Completed: 12 January 1911
Fate: Breakers yard, Dalmuir 1947
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 11,223 GRT
Length: 500 ft 6 in (152.55 m)
Beam: 62 ft 3 in (18.97 m)
Depth of hold: 39 ft 4 in (11.99 m)
Propulsion: 2 × quad expansion engines
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)

TSS Themistocles was an 11,200-ton ocean liner of the Aberdeen Line launched in 1910, and later sold to the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line, working on routes to Australia for both companies.

Ship history

Themistocles was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and launched on 22 September 1910. A sister ship, Demosthenes, was launched on 28 February 1911.[1]

The ship sailed the London to Australia via Cape Town route. The cost of a single berth third class ticket for the 40 day journey to Melbourne cost £25 in 1910. The ship had accommodation for 250 third class passengers and 100 first class passengers. In 1932 it was sold to the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line.[1]

She served as a British troopship during World War I and survived a number of convoy duties during World War II, remaining on the Australian route throughout and also after the war, until scrapped at Dalmuir on 24 August 1947.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dunn, Laurence (1964). Famous Liners of the Past Belfast Built. London: Adlard Coles. pp. 20–21.


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