SS Cymric

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.

References

* [http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/Cymric.htm Cymric at titanic-whitestarships.com]
* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsCC.html Description of Cymric]
* [http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1521.html Sinking of Cymric at Uboat.net]
* [http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/WSL-Uboat.htm Sinking of Cymric]