SS Nomadic (1911)
SS Nomadic in 1911
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 France
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| Name: | SS Nomadic |
| Owner: |  |
| Operator: | White Star Line |
| Port of registry: |
Cherbourg,  France
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| Builder: | |
| Yard number: | 422 |
| Laid down: | 22 December 1910 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1911 |
| Completed: | 27 May 1911 |
| Acquired: | 27 May 1911 |
| Maiden voyage: | 31 May 1911 |
| Fate: | Sold |
| Notes: | Sea trials 16 May 1911 |
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France
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| Name: | SS Nomadic |
| Operator: | Compagnie Cherbourgeoise de Transbordement |
| Port of registry: |
Cherbourg, France
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| Acquired: | 1927 |
| Out of service: | 1969 |
| Renamed: | Ingenieur Minard |
| Fate: | Sold to UK |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS Nomadic |
| Operator: | SS Nomadic Charitable Trust Ltd. |
| Port of registry: |
Cherbourg, France
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| Acquired: | 2006 |
| In service: | 2013 |
| Status: | Museum ship, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 1,273 GT |
| Length: | 220 ft (67 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Decks: | 5 |
| Installed power: | 2 single ended Scotch marine boilers |
| Propulsion: | 2 double expansion engines powering 2 triple bladed propellers. |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Capacity: | 1,000 passengers |
| Crew: | 14 |
SS Nomadic is a former 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 RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, and is the only White Star Line vessel in existence today.
Nomadic was one of two vessels commissioned by the White Star Line in 1910 to tender for their new ocean liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, which were too large to dock in Cherbourg harbour. She and her running mate SS Traffic 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 respectively. She was launched on 25 April 1911 and delivered to the White Star Line on the 27 May, following sea trials.
The ship is 230 feet (70 m) long overall and 37 feet (11 m) wide, with a gross registered tonnage of 1,273 tons. Propulsion was provided by two single-ended coal-fired boilers and two compound steam engines, each driving two triple bladed propellers of 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter, which gave a service speed of 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h).
Nomadic is of steel construction, with steel frames, beams, bulkheads and riveted hull plating. She had four working decks with various hold spaces beneath. She could carry up to 1,000 passengers when fully loaded.
Passenger accommodation consisted of lower and upper deck passenger lounges and open deck areas on the bridge and flying bridge decks. The vessel was divided into first and second class passenger areas, with first class passengers enjoying the fore areas of the ship. A small area in the aft end of the lower deck was assigned for overspill of third-class passengers from SS Traffic.
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