page_title: Oceanic (unfinished ship)
section_title: Cancellation
hierarchical_section_title: Oceanic (unfinished ship) / Cancellation
caption_attribution_description: RMS Georgic LR/IMO number: 1162365
context_page_description: The RMMV Oceanic was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. The ship was to have been the first 1,000-foot-long ocean liner. She was intended to be the largest ocean liner for the White Star Line, thus she would have been larger than the earlier White Star giants, Olympic, Titanic, Britannic, and Majestic.
context_section_description: Further work on Oceanic was postponed, and later cancelled due to the collapse of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, owners of the White Star Line, as a result of the financial problems of Sir Owen Philips, Lord Kylsant. The Royal Mail Case, as it was known, led to the imprisonment of Kylsant, and to substantial changes in accounting and auditing practice. Loans backed by the governments of England and Northern Ireland intended for the construction of Oceanic were diverted to the construction of the last two ships built for White Star, Britannic and her near twin sister, Georgic. These two liners may have been built with steel plate ordered for Oceanic, whose partially built hull was subsequently dismantled and recycled after the aforementioned diversion of funds.
  Based on the third set design drawn by Harland and Wolff, the ship would have measured at least 1000 feet long with a tonnage of 80,000 tons and have three squat funnels, making her appear like a larger version of Georgic and roughly the same size as her rivals SS Normandie and RMS Queen Mary, along with powerful engines which would potentially have enabled the ship to gain the Blue Riband record for speed. Her extensive interiors were to have been, to a large degree, based on the popular Art Deco fashions of the day pioneered on ocean liners by the French Line's SS Ile de France just a few years earlier in 1927.
caption: The MV Georgic inherited several of the designs planned for the Oceanic and her construction began after the cancellation of this ship
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