RMS Cymric

The RMS Cymric was a steamship of the White Star Line built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast and launched on 12 October 1897. Cymric had originally been intended to be an enlarged version of SS Georgic, being a combination of a passenger liner and livestock carrier, with accommodation for only First Class passengers. Cymric was the first White Star ship to be fitted with quadruple expansion engines, of which she had two, producing 6,800 indicated horsepower (5,100 kW), powering two propellers.

During both the Boer War and the First World War she was pressed into service as a troop and cargo transport. In 1914, Cymric transported British soldiers to France. Between 1914 and 1918 about 50 large oceangoing passenger steamships converted to war purposes as floating hospitals and troop transports were sunk in the Atlantic by German forces. Cymric came to be the thirty-seventh in the list.