SS Demosthenes (1911)

	Demosthenes leaving Sydney
History
United Kingdom
Name	Demosthenes
Namesake	Demosthenes
Owner	George Thompson & Co Ltd
Operator	Aberdeen Line
Port of registry	Aberdeen
Route	London – Cape Town – Melbourne
Builder	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Yard number	418
Launched	28 February 1911
Completed	5 August 1911
Maiden voyage	31 August 1911
Identification	UK official number 129362; code letters HTFB; ; call sign MGK; Pennant number A64 (1915–17);
Fate	Scrapped 18 October 1931
General characteristics
Type	Ocean liner
Tonnage	11,223 GRT, 7,034 NRT
Length	500.6 ft (152.6 m)
Beam	62.3 ft (19.0 m)
Draught	29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
Depth	39.4 ft (12.0 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	1,358 NHP
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines; 1 × low-pressure steam turbine; 3 × screws;
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Capacity	100 first class berths; 1,200 third class berths; 212,019 cubic feet (6,004 m3) refrigerated cargo;
Sensors and ; processing systems	submarine signalling
Notes	sister ships: Pericles, Themistocles

SS Demosthenes was a UK steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1911 in Ireland for Aberdeen Line and scrapped in 1931 in England. In the First World War she was an Allied troop ship.

Aberdeen Line named some of its ships after classical Greek people and events. Demosthenes was a statesman and orator in Classical Athens in the fourth century BC.

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