Ocean liners

From season 1 and season 7, there are many **ocean liners** docked at Portsmouth and Klondyke harbour.

## RMS Baltic

### Builder

Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland

### Fate

Scrapped in Japan, 1933

**RMS Baltic** is a two-funnelled ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. She is one of renowned "Big Four" ships of that company.

### History

RMS Baltic was laid down at Harland Wolff of Belfast in 1902 for the White Star route from Liverpool to New York City and was commissioned into service in 23rd June, 1903. Unlike other ships of the time, Baltic was the first ship to be fitted with a swimming pool and had a top speed of 16 knots (30/km/h or 18 mph) from two screws powered by two four-cylinder reciprocating steam engines.

When entering service in June 1903, RMS Baltic claimed the title of the largest ocean liner afloat and held this title until 1907 following the arrival of Cunard Line's new four-funnelled ocean liner RMS Lusitania.

### Basis

RMS Baltic is based off the real ocean liner.

### Trivia

RMS Baltic was one of the four most profitable ships in the White Star Line, dubbed the "Big Four".

The 1903 RMS Baltic was the second and last ocean liner owned by the White Star Line to receive this name, first used in 1871.

## SS Chimera

### Fate

Sunk, 31st December 1909

**SS Chimera** is a large three-funnelled ocean liner owned by an American shipping company. She is renowned for her speed and her tragic end on New Years Eve night in 1909.

### History

SS Chimera's history is mostly unknown due to her being built by the United States instead of the United Kingdom, making her history an unknown. She became something of a sight in Nerlish waters heading to Portsmouth during her transatlantic voyages between there and New York City. On New Years Eve in 1909, SS Chimera was reported to have been seen on fire outside of NYC and was lost with all passengers and crew.

### Basis

SS Chimera is based off RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania.

### Trivia

Unlike her basis, SS Chimera has three funnels as opposed to four.

SS Chimera originally came from a fan-made TUGS audio story.

## SS Monaro

### Builder

Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland

### Fate

Converted to a hospital ship in 1940. Torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine, 1943

**SS Monaro** is a large but elderly two-funnelled ocean liner owned by the Blue Top Line of Sydney, Australia. She's the company's first and oldest ship in their active fleet until her loss in WWII.

### History

SS Monaro was built by Harland & Wolff of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1899 for the Australian Blue Top Line based on the design of the White Star Line's RMS Oceanic, also built at the same time. Both were launched in time with SS Monaro departing for Australia for final fitting out in Sydney, arriving at Cockatoo Island for this to be carried out.

### Basis

SS Monaro is based on RMS Oceanic (1899).

### Trivia

Originally, SS Monaro's model was going to be reused from SS Chimera. This was scrapped when the ship's basis was altered.

SS Monaro is named after a town in New South Wales, Australia, and a model of muscle car built by Australian firm Holden.

SS Monaro is the only ship in the Blue Top Line to not use the "-ier" suffix in her name.