page_title: Oceanic (unfinished ship)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Oceanic (unfinished ship) / History
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Приблизительный внешний вид непостроенного тртьего Океаника УСЛ
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: Several sets of plans for the ship's design were produced by Harland and Wolff for Oceanic between 1926 and 1930. One set, submitted in January 1926, showed a 900-foot (270 m)-long four-funnel liner. Another set, drawn later the same year, showed a 935 feet long and 100 feet wide liner with three funnels. It was roughly the same size as Europa and Bremen. The final set showed the current 1,050-foot-long (320 m) design with three funnels and cruiser stern typical of liners being built in the mid to late 1920s.
  The order was placed on 18 June 1928 and construction began on 28 June 1928, when her keel was laid. The work was slowed by a dispute over her powerplant; Lord Kylsant who controlled the White Star Line wanted to use diesel-electric instead of the traditional steam power. White Star proposed having over 40 diesel generator sets driving four propellers through geared electric motors. Harland & Wolff was reluctant to adopt this system, preferring to continue the use of trusted steam turbine propulsion. A compromise of sorts was reached and the final design used four conventional low-speed 'cathedral' diesel engines, each directly driving one propeller shaft - which would have made Oceanic the first quadruple-screw Motor ship. But by the time all parties had settled on the use of diesel, the Great Depression was hitting the shipping business.
caption: Design planned for the Oceanic
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