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SS Nomadic (1911)
SS ''Nomadic'' is a former ship's tender, tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. She was built to transfer passengers and mail to and from and . She is the only surviving vessel designed by Thomas Andrews who also designed those two ocean liners, and the only White Star Line vessel in existence today. Background ''Nomadic'' was one of two vessels commissioned by the White Star Line in 1910 to tender for their new ocean liners and , which were too large to dock in Cherbourg Harbour. She and her running mate ferried passengers, their baggage, mail and ship's supplies to and from large ocean liners moored offshore. The keel of ''Nomadic'' was laid down in the Harland and Wolff shipyards, Belfast in 1910 (yard number 422). She was built on slipway No. 1 alongside RMS ''Olympic'' and RMS ''Titanic'', which were constructed on slipways 2 and 3, of the Arrol Gantry, respectively. She was launched on 25 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Ship
A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small number of museum ships that are still operational and thus capable of regular movement. Several hundred museum ships are kept around the world, with around 175 of them organised in the Historic Naval Ships AssociationAbout The Historic Naval Ships Association (the international website. Accessed 2008-06-06.) though many are not naval museum ships, from general merchant ships to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
