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SS ''Ivernia'' was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by the company Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and launched in 1899. The ''Ivernia'' was one of Cunard's intermediate ships, that catered to the vast immigrant trade. Together with her sister ship SS ''Saxonia'', the ''Ivernia'' worked on Cunard's service from Liverpool to Boston and then later on the immigrant run the Cunard Line had established from Fiume and Trieste to New York City. 〔Neil McCart, ''Atlantic Liners of the Cunard Line'' (1990), pp. 35-36.〕 Following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the ''Ivernia'' was hired by the British government as a troop transport. In autumn of 1916, William Thomas Turner (made famous for being the captain of at the time of her sinking) was given command. On 1 January 1917 the ''Ivernia'' was carrying some 2,400 British troops from Marseille to Alexandria, when at 10:12am she was torpedoed by the German submarine ''UB-47'' 58 miles south-east of Cape Matapan in Greece, in the Kythira Strait. The ship went down fairly quickly with a loss of 36 crew members and 84 troops. Captain Turner, who had been criticized for not going down with the ''Lusitania'' (even though he had believed he was the last person on board), remained on the bridge until all aboard had departed in lifeboats and rafts “before striking out to swim as the vessel went down under his feet."〔 rescued a number of survivors and armed trawlers towed the bulk, who had taken to lifeboats, to Suda Bay in Crete. Today Ivernia Road in Walton in Liverpool still bears the name of the doomed vessel. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Ivernia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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