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SS Albertic

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	SS Albertic.jpg
image_caption	SS Albertic
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	German Empire
flag
builder	AG Weser
laid_down	1914
launched	23 March 1920
fate	Acquired by the British government as war reparations
section3	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
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name	Ohio* (1920-1927)
owner	* Royal Mail Line (1920-1927)
in_service	April 1923
out_of_service	August 1930
identification	* Official number: 147459
* Call sign: KNSG<ref name	"norwayheritage"
fate	Broken up, 1934
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
type	Ocean liner
tonnage	*
length	590 ft
beam	72 ft
hold_depth	37 ft
propulsion	* 8-cylinder quadruple expansion engines
capacity	* 1442 passengers:
crew	around 300

Albertic (1927-1934)
White Star Line (1927-1934)
Call sign: KNSG
2 screws
229 × 1st class
523 × 2nd class
690 × 3rd class

'*SS Albertic''' was a British ocean liner, originally built as the Norddeutscher Lloyd's *München''. It was handed to Britain as part of war reparations and served during the 1920s and 1930s.

History

The ship was laid down in 1914 by AG Weser of Bremen, Germany, but construction was halted during the war. Work resumed in 1919, and she was finally launched on 23 March 1920 as the München for Germany's Norddeutscher Lloyd Line. However, before she could enter service for NDL, she was handed over to the British government as war reparations, and promptly sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company who renamed her Ohio. After a prolonged fitting out, the Ohio finally made her maiden voyage on 3 April 1923, sailing from Hamburg to New York. In 1927 Ohio was transferred to the White Star Line and renamed Albertic after the Canadian province of Alberta. As a White Star Line ship she served on the trans-Atlantic service between Britain, Canada and the United States from April 1927 until August 1930, when she was laid up in the River Clyde. Albertic was broken up for scrap at Osaka, Japan, in 1934. This is because White Star-Cunard, facing a dramatic drop in passenger bookings during the Great Depression, decided to scrap older White Star Line ships like Albertic, to focus their resources on completing the new and larger RMS Queen Mary.

References

(2012). "Albertic, White Star Line". norwayheritage.com.
"New York Passenger Lists - Manifest of Alien Passengers, SS Albertic from Liverpool; July 1929". Family Search, 12 March 2018.
(2012). "Albertic". White Star Line History.

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