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Delphic

 
White Star Line
  


Image of steamship Delphic


Length: 475 ft.
Breadth: 55 ft.
Draft (or Depth): Draft
Tonnage: 8273 (gross)
Engines: Two triple-expansion steam engines powering a single propellor.
Speed: 11 knots
Builder: Harland and Wolff, Ltd, Belfast, Ireland (Yard number: 309)
Launched: January 5, 1897
Maiden Voyage: June 17, 1897
Disposition: August 16, 1917 (torpedoed and sunk)
Particulars:

Port of Registry: Liverpool, England
Flag of Registry: British
Funnel color: Buff; black top
Company flag: Red swallow-tail pennant with white star
Signal Letters:
Wireless call letters:
Details: Steel; single funnel; 4 masts

 

Relationship to Titanic disaster / inquiries.

Herbert Pitman's first ship working for White Star. (referred to as Dolphin during his US Senate testimony.)

Data:

Ordered as a smaller version of the steamer Gothic, which needed a fleet mate for the lucrative New Zealand service.

Upon delivery White Star used the vessel for several trips in the New York service following which she was transferred to the New Zealand trade.

During the Boer War, carried troops and horses to South Africa.

During World War I she continued in commercial service until being taken over for war duties in March, 2017.

While hauling coal to Uraguay in August 16, 1917, she was torpedoed by UC-72 approximately 135 miles from Bishop Rock, and sank with the loss of five lives.

 

Courtesy: (Image) The steamship Delphic, Wellington. Ref: 1/1-004461-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand