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Description
Career
Name:                  SS Aurora
Owner: Crown Pacific Lines
Purpose: Ocean Liner/Cruise Liner
Ordered:             10 August 1907
Laid down: 25 February 1908
Launched: 25 April 1910
Completed: 30 June 1911
Maiden voyage: 3 June 1911
In service: 1911

General Characteristics
Tonnage: 20,374 GRT
Length: 720 ft (219.45 m)
Beam: 90 ft (27.4 m)
Decks: 7 (1 crew deck)
Installed power:    16 double-ended (eight furnace) Scotch boilers.
Propulsion:         Two bronze quadruple-blade wing propellers
Speed: 18.5 knots, 20 knots (maximum)
Capacity: 1168 passengers (645 first class, 523 second class)
Crew: 720

The Aurora was an ocean liner designed by Bennett Lowell and built by Hunterson Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Crown Pacific Line. Launched on the early morning of 25 April 1910, she was the first of three of the Aurora-class ships, with her running mates Selene and Astarea. The Aurora-class were the fleet's largest ships until the completion of the RMS Vesta in 1913. Since the Aurora-class was commissioned to also function as cruise liners, their hull was painted in white with the trademark blue stripe (which will soon be the norm of all Crown Pacific cruise ships) instead of the traditional black.

The loss of the company's two Aelia-class ships: the Aelia and Aquila, and also a handful of aging ships caused the company to lose significant amount of vessels. Coupled with the fact that passenger numbers tend to dwindle in winter, the company's income dropped steadily. In the face of the major financial loss, Crown Pacific quickly thought of how to raise their their income even in winter sailing. After seeing the success of the German's purpose-built cruise ship, the Prinzessin Victoria Luise, with the steady slope of income, an agreement was made in 1906. The company would build three ocean liners, which would easily convert as a cruise ship with all the comforts and luxury of any modern passenger liner, and thus the Aurora-class ships were born.

Aurora and her sisters would take rotating scheduled cruises with the Aurora taking summer and first half of winter cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean respectively, while taking passengers from London to New York through the Atlantic Ocean on spring and autumn.

The Aurora was built to accommodate specifically first and second class passengers, where every facilities could be easily enjoyed by all passengers during cruisings. The Aurora boasted an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium, a turkish bath, a dance hall, smoking rooms, lounges, with dining rooms, and spacious staterooms which were luxuriously furnished, and even a series of electric elevators available for both classes for maximum passenger comfort.

Another fictional ship I decided to draw in my spare time. Far easier to draw than my other ship, RMS Atlas since the Aurora is smaller. I had fun designing this ship. Enjoy, and tell me what you think!

Link to pic without lifeboats: sta.sh/01kuncy6cwwx

EDIT: Changed the funnel colors, superstructure shape, and hull length.

Description
Career
Name:                  SS Aurora
Owner: Crown Pacific Lines
Purpose: Ocean Liner/Cruise Liner
Ordered:             10 August 1907
Laid down: 25 February 1908
Launched: 25 April 1910
Completed: 30 June 1911
Maiden voyage: 3 June 1911
In service: 1911

General Characteristics
Tonnage: 20,374 GRT
Length: 720 ft (219.45 m)
Beam: 90 ft (27.4 m)
Decks: 7 (1 crew deck)
Installed power:    16 double-ended (eight furnace) Scotch boilers.
Propulsion:         Two bronze quadruple-blade wing propellers
Speed: 18.5 knots, 20 knots (maximum)
Capacity: 1168 passengers (645 first class, 523 second class)
Crew: 720

The Aurora was an ocean liner designed by Bennett Lowell and built by Hunterson Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Crown Pacific Line. Launched on the early morning of 25 April 1910, she was the first of three of the Aurora-class ships, with her running mates Selene and Astarea. The Aurora-class were the fleet's largest ships until the completion of the RMS Vesta in 1913. Since the Aurora-class was commissioned to also function as cruise liners, their hull was painted in white with the trademark blue stripe (which will soon be the norm of all Crown Pacific cruise ships) instead of the traditional black.

The loss of the company's two Aelia-class ships: the Aelia and Aquila, and also a handful of aging ships caused the company to lose significant amount of vessels. Coupled with the fact that passenger numbers tend to dwindle in winter, the company's income dropped steadily. In the face of the major financial loss, Crown Pacific quickly thought of how to raise their their income even in winter sailing. After seeing the success of the German's purpose-built cruise ship, the Prinzessin Victoria Luise, with the steady slope of income, an agreement was made in 1906. The company would build three ocean liners, which would easily convert as a cruise ship with all the comforts and luxury of any modern passenger liner, and thus the Aurora-class ships were born.

Aurora and her sisters would take rotating scheduled cruises with the Aurora taking summer and first half of winter cruises to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean respectively, while taking passengers from London to New York through the Atlantic Ocean on spring and autumn.

The Aurora was built to accommodate specifically first and second class passengers, where every facilities could be easily enjoyed by all passengers during cruisings. The Aurora boasted an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium, a turkish bath, a dance hall, smoking rooms, lounges, with dining rooms, and spacious staterooms which were luxuriously furnished, and even a series of electric elevators available for both classes for maximum passenger comfort.

Another fictional ship I decided to draw in my spare time. Far easier to draw than my other ship, RMS Atlas since the Aurora is smaller. I had fun designing this ship. Enjoy, and tell me what you think!

Link to pic without lifeboats: sta.sh/01kuncy6cwwx

EDIT: Changed the funnel colors, superstructure shape, and hull length.