SS Doric
1923 "The new White Star Liner Doric, which leaves Liverpool to-day on her maiden trip to Quebec and Montreal, calling at Belfast on the west-bound voyage, marks the most recent addition to the company's Atlantic fleet. Built by Harland and Wolff, Limited, at Belfast, the Doric has a gross tonnage of 16,484 tons, with a length of 600ft. 9in., a breadth of 67ft. 6in. and a depth of 45ft. 6in. With a cruiser stern, her lines are pleasing in appearance. She has accommodation for 2300 passengers in two classes of 600 cabin and 1700 third-class passengers. Twin-screw single reduction turbine machinery is installed, the turbines comprising one high-pressure set, which exhausts into the low-pressure turbine, and thence to the condenser. Under service conditions the propelling machinery is designed to develop a total of 9000 shaft horse-power. Steam is generated in six double-ended steel boilers of the multitubular cylindrical type. The boilers are 15ft. 6in. in diameter and 19ft. 6in. in length, and work at a pressure of 215 lb. per square inch. The vessel is replete with all the most recent liner improvements, and will undoubtedly prove a popular ship in the Canadian service."[1]