SS Traffic (1911)

SS Traffic was a tender of the White Star Line and the fleetmate of Nomadic, built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast to serve the Olympic-class ocean liners at Cherbourg, where she carried third class passengers and mails between the port and the liners anchored in the harbour while Nomadic carried first and second class passengers. Harland and Wolff laid down her keel on 22 December 1910 as yard number 423 and launched her on 27 April 1911, two days after Nomadic, and she could sail at a maximum speed of 12 knots. In April 1912 she carried immigrants out to the Titanic, and she served White Star until 1927, when she was sold and later renamed Ingenieur Reibell. French forces scuttled her in June 1940, the Germans refloated her to convert her into an escort ship, and in January 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by the British. Her wreck was salvaged and scrapped.