RMS Nephrite

The RMS Nephrite was the first of the Nephrite Class and was the last Gem Line ship built with sails of any kind. She had a long and successful career and remained in service when Gem Line merged with Night Star Line in 1928. In 1939, during a transatlantic crossing, she was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank with 27/41 perishing. undefined News of her sinking was met with outrage from the public as like the sinking of the Lusitania 24 years prior, Germans had attacked a civilian vessel unprovoked.