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Cruise ship

RMS Republic

IMO 1118043Call sign MKCUnited Kingdom

Operated by White Star Line

Photo: White Star Line · Public domain · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About RMS Republic

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RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and lost at sea in a collision in 1909 while sailing for the White Star Line. The ship was equipped with a new Marconi wireless telegraphy transmitter, and issued a CQD distress call, resulting in the saving of around 1,500 lives, the first major marine rescue made possible by radio. Known as the "Millionaires' Ship" because of the number of wealthy Americans who traveled by her, she was described as a "palatial liner" and was the flagship of White Star Line's Boston service.

Quoted from RMS Republic on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 1118043
IMO check digit: Does not validate

In context

How RMS Republic compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag.

The registry attributes 124 vessels to Harland and Wolff, with a median tonnage of 12,002 GT, delivered between 1904 and 2003. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 180.7 m overall, RMS Republic is 17.4 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 20.2 m and a draft of 10.4 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1118043 this registry holds 28 other vessels, whose median build year is 1904 and which range from 1903 to 1907. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 1118043, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 8×4 + 0×3 + 4×2 = 58 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does not, so this number as recorded does not validate; it is shown here as held rather than silently corrected.