SS Baltic (1871)

History
White Star Line logo and house flag.
Name:	SS Baltic SS Veendam
Owner:	White Star Line Holland-America Line
Port of registry:	Liverpool, England
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number:	75
Laid down:	1870
Launched:	8 March 1871
Completed:	2 September 1871
Maiden voyage:	14 September 1871
In service:	1871-1898
Fate:	Sunk in collision 6 February 1898

SS Baltic was an ocean liner owned and operated by the White Star Line. Baltic was one of the first four ships ordered by White Star from shipbuilders Harland and Wolff after Thomas Ismay bought the company, and the third of the ships to be delivered.

In 1889, after SS Teutonic entered service, Baltic was sold to the Holland America Line and renamed Veendam after the Dutch city of that name. On 6 February 1898, Veendam hit a derelict ship and sank, with all on board saved.

Sources and references

Info from website "Titanic: Voyage of Discovery"

Records
Preceded by City of Brussels	Atlantic Eastbound Record 1873	Succeeded by City of Berlin

White Star Line ships

Surviving ships	Nomadic (1911)

Planned	Olympic (order cancelled) Oceanic (never completed)

Former ships	Red Jacket (1853) Blue Jacket (1854) Tayleur (1854) Oceanic (1870) Atlantic (1871) Baltic (1871) Tropic (1871) Asiatic (1871) Republic (1872) Adriatic (1872) Celtic (1872) Traffic (1872) Gaelic (1872) Belgic (1873) Britannic (1874) Germanic (1875) Arabic (1881) Coptic (1881) Ionic (1883) Doric (1883) Belgic (1885) Gaelic (1885) Cufic (1888) Runic (1889) Teutonic (1889) Majestic (1890) Tauric (1891) Magnetic (1891) Nomadic (1891) Naronic (1892) Bovic (1892) Gothic (1893) Cevic (1894) Pontic (1894) Georgic (1895) Delphic (1897) Cymric (1898) Afric (1899) Medic (1899) Persic (1899) Oceanic Runic (1900) Suevic (1901) Celtic (1901) Athenic (1902) Corinthic (1902) Ionic (1903) Cedric (1903) Victorian (1903) Armenian (1903) Arabic (1903) Romanic (1903) Cretic (1903) Republic (1903) Canopic (1904) Cufic (1904) Baltic (1904) Tropic (1904) Gallic (1907) Adriatic (1907) Laurentic (1909) Megantic (1909) Zeeland (1910) Traffic (1911) Olympic (1911) Belgic (1911) Zealandic (1911) Titanic (1912) Ceramic (1913) Lapland (1914) Britannic (1914) Belgic (1917) Justicia (1918) Vedic (1918) Bardic (1919) Gallic (1920) Mobile (1920) Arabic (1920) Homeric (1920) Haverford (1921) Poland (1922) Majestic (1922) Pittsburgh (1922) Doric (1923) Delphic (1925) Regina (1925) Albertic (1927) Calgaric (1927) Laurentic (1927) Britannic (1929) Georgic (1931)

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1898

Shipwrecks	19 Jan: Active 25 Jan: Koonya 5 Feb: Clara Nevada 6 Feb: Veendam 15 Feb: USS Maine March (unknown date): Eliza Anderson 1 May: Castilla, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzón, Marques del Duero, Reina Cristina, Velasco 5 May: Hereward 7 May: Merksworth May (unknown date): Adelaide 2 Jun: USS Merrimac 3 Jul: Almirante Oquendo, Cristóbal Colón, Furor, Infanta Maria Teresa, Plutón, Vizcaya 4 Jul: La Bourgogne 5 Jul: Reina Mercedes 12 Jul: Regulator 20 Jul: Wendouree 21 Jul: Jorge Juan 31 Jul: Lapérouse 22 Aug: Kate 14 Oct: Henry Chisholm, Mohegan 25 Oct: L. R. Doty 26-27 Nov: Portland 23 Dec: Joys 29 Dec: Glenavon Unknown date: Gouverneur-Generaal Loudon, Lofthus

Other incidents	February (unknown date): Coptic 14 Aug: Sarah Dixon 22 Aug: Oakland 9 Dec: Castalia 21 Dec: Oakland

1897 1899

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