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SS Celtic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line by shipbuilders Harland and Wolff of Belfast. The Celtic , the first of two White Star ships to bear the name, was the last of six Oceanic-class liners commissioned by White Star; she and her older sister Adriatic were ordered following the success of what was originally a series of four.
RMS Celtic was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than SS Great Eastern by gross register tonnage (it was also 9 ft [2.7 m] longer), Celtic was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, the dubbed The Big Four. [4] She was the last ship ordered by Thomas Henry Ismay before his death in 1899.
SS Celtic was the name of a number of ships. SS Celtic (1872) , launched in 1872, serving with the White Star Line . RMS Celtic (1901) , which would have been known as SS Celtic when not carrying mail.
The sixth and final ship of the group was originally to be called Arctic, however there had been another ship of that name which had sunk in 1854, and so the decision was taken to rename it Celtic whilst it was still being built. It was launched in June 1871. Celtic was the same design as Adriatic except for her engines being made by G ...
Celtic has been the name of a number of ships: SS Celtic (1872), a White Star Line liner; RMS Celtic (1901), a White Star Line liner; MV Celtic (1903), built as a sailing barge in 1903 and converted to a motorship in 1941; USS Celtic (AF-2), a U.S. Navy supply ship
Cymric had originally been intended to be an enlarged version of SS Georgic, [1] being a combination of a passenger liner and livestock carrier, with accommodation for only First Class passengers. During the stages of her design layout, it became clearer to the designers at Harland and Wolff that combining passengers and livestock had become ...
On 15 January 1874, while making an eastbound crossing, she came to the assistance of the larger White Star ship SS Celtic when the latter vessel lost her propeller blades after striking wreckage in the Irish Sea. She towed the Celtic into Queenstown. From 3 June to 2 November 1874, she made four round voyages on the London-New York run ...
SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines.She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds.