SS Cymric

	RMS Cymric at Liverpool.
History
UK
Name	SS Cymric
Owner	White Star Line
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Launched	12 October 1897
Maiden voyage	11 February 1898
Fate	Torpedoed by German U-boat U-20 on 13 April 1916.
General characteristics
Tonnage	12,552 GRT GRT uses unsupported parameter (help)
Length	585 ft (178.308000 m)*
Beam	64 ft (19.507 m)*
Speed	15 knots
Capacity	list error: <br /> list (help); 150 1st class passengers; 1,160 3rd class passengers

SS Cymric was a steamship of the White Star Line built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched on 12 October 1897. She departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 11 February 1898.

During both the Boer War and the First World War she was pressed into service as a troop transport. On 8 May 1916 she was torpedoed three times by Walther Schwieger's U-20, which had sunk Lusitania a year earlier. The Cymric sank the next day with the loss of five lives, 140 miles northwest of Fastnet.

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