RMS Adriatic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line, the fourth and last of the Big Four ships, ordered from Harland and Wolff in Belfast in December 1903 and launched in September 1906. She was the largest, fastest and most luxurious of the four and the first ocean liner to carry an indoor swimming pool and Victorian-style Turkish baths. Quadruple expansion steam engines drove her two propellers. Her service began on the new route from Southampton to New York and from 1911 she also ran from Liverpool. She became a troop transport in 1917, was refitted several times and used increasingly for cruises, and was sold for scrapping at Osaka in 1935 after the Cunard and White Star merger.
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Career
She was launched on 20 September 1906, the same day as the Cunard Line's Mauretania.
Specifications
Like the other three ships in her class, the Adriatic was propelled by two propellers operated by quadruple-expansion steam engines.
Career, status
She left Liverpool for the last time on 19 December 1934, her longest voyage ever; to be scrapped at Osaka, Japan, in 1935.
Construction
The fourth ship in the series, the Adriatic, was ordered from Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast in December 1903, but she wasn't completed until May 1907, a strangely long delay.
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RMS Adriatic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line.
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