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It was the last steamship built for the White Star Line and the last White Star Line ship to sink. Oceanic: 1928 60,000-80,000 Keel laid down by Harland & Wolff in 1927 but never finished due to depression and collapse of RMSPC. Britannic: 1929: 1929–1949: 26,943
As far as is known, the remaining lifeboat from Nomadic is one of the last two White Star Line lifeboats still intact in the world, [1] [16] the other being Lifeboat 6 from RMS Oceanic. [17] Nomadic originally had two 20-foot (6.1 m) lifeboats, believed to have the capacity for about 28 people each when fully loaded, to serve up to 1,200 ...
MV Georgic was the last ship built for the White Star Line before its merger with the Cunard Line. Built at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, she was the running mate and younger sister of MV Britannic. Like Britannic, Georgic was a motorship, and not a steamer, fitted with a diesel powerplant. At the time of her launch in 1931, she was ...
Last surviving White Star ship, Nomadic, photographed in 2012 in the condition in which she would have appeared in 1912, drydocked in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The White Star Line's main offices, Albion House, still exist in Liverpool, standing in James Street within sight of the more grandiose headquarters of their rivals, the Cunard Building ...
SS Laurentic was a 18,724 GRT steam ocean liner built in 1927 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, for White Star Line. [1] The second ship of the company to bear this name, she was the last steamship to be built for the company.
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.
She was the last White Star liner in existence, leaving the passenger tender SS Nomadic, which was also owned by the company until 1934, as the last White Star Line ship afloat. Despite this, all Cunard Line ships flew both the Cunard and White Star Line house flags on their masts until late 1968.
In 1947 Cunard purchased White Star's interest, and by 1949 the company had dropped the White Star name and was renamed Cunard Line, which continued to operate Britannic and Georgic. [18] In 1956, Georgic was sold for scrap, leaving Britannic as the last liner of the White Star Line in service.