SS Republic (1871)

SS Republic was an ocean liner built in 1871 by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, the fourth ship of the Oceanic class. She was launched on 4 July 1871 as Adriatic and renamed Republic by late August, a name referring to her launch on American Independence Day. After a rough maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 1 February 1872, she was chosen for White Star Line first voyage on the South Atlantic and Pacific line to Chile. From 1874, after Germanic and Britannic were built, she became the line standby vessel, a position she held for 15 years, and she was surplus once Teutonic and Majestic entered service in 1889. Sold that year to Holland America Line as Maasdam, then in 1902 to the Italian company La Veloce, she carried migrants to America and housed victims of the 1908 Messina earthquake. She was scrapped at Genoa in 1910, the last of the Oceanic class to go.