MEDIC / HECTORIA

MEDIC WAS A TWIN SCREW STEAMSHIP  OF 11,985 TONS AND HAD BEEN BUILT  BY HARLAND & WOLFF IN 1899, SHE RETAINED HER FOUR MASTS AND HAD ONE FUNNEL. SHE WAS ONE OF THE JUBILEE CLASS OF SHIPS THE OTHER VESSELS  IN THE  SAME CLASS WERE AFRIC, PERSIC, SUEVIC AND RUNIC.ALL WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR THE LIVERPOOL TO CAPETOWN,SYDNEY SERVICE. HER MAIDEN VOYAGE WAS ON THE 3RD AUGUST 1899 FROM LIVERPOOL-CAPETOWN-SYDNEY. ON THE RETURN VOYAGE SHE CARRIED AUSTRALIAN SOLDATS AND THEIR HORSES FOR SERVICE IN THE BOER WAR SHE  WAS SOLD TO N BUGGE OF TONSBERG IN 1928 AND THEN CONVERTED INTO A WHALE FACTORY SHIP AT BIRKENHEAD.HER NEW OWNERS RE-NAMED HER HECTORIA.SHE WAS USED AS A TANKER BY THE UK GOVERNMENT DURING THE WAR AND WAS SUNK BY TORPEDO WHILE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC ON 11TH SEPTEMBER 1942 BY THE GERMAN U-BOAT U-608 HAVING BEEN DAMAGE THE SAME DAY BY THE SUBMARINE U-211. ONE CREW MEMBER LOST HIS LIFE THE REST OF THE CREW WERE PICKED UP BY THE CANADIAN VESSEL HMCS ARVIDA. SHE HAD BEEN PART OF ON 27 BOUND FOR NEW YORK SHE WAS LISTED AS BEING NORWEGIAN BUT WAS BEING USED AS TANKER BY THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT