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RMS Teutonic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line in Belfast, which entered service in 1889, and was the first armed merchant cruiser. She was the sister ship of RMS Majestic . History
The Teutonic-class ocean liners were both known as the first modern liners because of their modifications to passenger accommodation. Whereas all of White Star's previous liners had only carried two classes of passengers (Saloon and Steerage), Teutonic and Majestic introduced changes to that paradigm to include a middle class and improved ...
RMS Teutonic, passenger ship for White Star Line, launched 19 January 1889, completed 25 July 1889, maiden voyage 7 August 1889, scrapped in 1921. SS British Empire , cargo ship for British Shipowners Ltd, launched 28 February 1889, completed 13 April 1889.
On August 13, 1890, Henderson took the White Star Line passenger steamer RMS Teutonic to sea on its first westward race across the Atlantic with the steamship SS City of New York. The race ended in victory for the Teutonic. The race from Queenstown harbor, Ireland to Sandy Hook, took five days and nineteen hours. [30]
Constructed by Harland and Wolff, Majestic was launched on 29 June 1889 and was delivered to White Star in March 1890. White Star had sought to fund the construction of both Majestic and her sister Teutonic through the British government, a proposal which was accepted with the stipulation that the Royal Navy would have access to the two liners in a time of war as Armed Merchant Cruisers.
Teutonia was a screw steamer that was built by Caird & Company, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland for the Hamburg Brazilianische Packetschiffahrt Gesellschaft in 1856.It later served with the Hamburg Amerika Line before being sold to British owners in 1877 and Italian owners in 1884, serving them under the names Regina, Piemontese, Città di Savona and Mentana The ship was scrapped in 1894.
White Star Line's RMS Teutonic, the inspiration for the "Four Flyers" Front cover of North German Lloyd Steamship Company passenger book. At the end of the 19th century, the United Kingdom dominated maritime trade with the ocean liners of the principal maritime companies such as the Cunard and the White Star Line.
RMS Gaelic was a passenger and cargo liner built for the White Star Line. She transported the first 102 Korean immigrants to the United States . Sold in 1905 for further service in the Pacific , she was scrapped in 1907.