SS Nomadic is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 at Belfast, that is now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. She was built to transfer passengers and mail to and from the ocean liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic. She is the only surviving vessel designed by Thomas Andrews, who also helped design those two ocean liners, and the last White Star Line vessel in existence today.
SS Adriatic was the first of two White Star Line ocean liners to carry the name Adriatic. The White Star Line's first four steamships of the Oceanic-class, the met with great success in the trans-Atlantic market, and the line decided to build two more. The first of these was the SS Adriatic, which was built by Harland and Wolff and launched on 17 October 1871; the second was the SS Celtic.
SS Asiatic was a steamship operated by the White Star Line from 1871 to 1873, a sister ship to Tropic. Sold off after only two years, she was renamed SS Ambriz, and eventually was wrecked in 1903.
SS Traffic was a tender of the White Star Line, and the fleetmate to the Nomadic. She was built for the White Star Line by Harland and Wolff, at Belfast, to serve the Olympic-class ocean liners. In Cherbourg, her role was to transport Third Class passengers and mails between the port and the liners anchored in the harbour, while the Nomadic was tasked with transporting First Class and Second Class passengers.
SS Zealandic was a British ocean liner initially operated by White Star Line. She was used both as a passenger liner and a cargo ship as well as serving during both world wars.
SS Gallic was a paddle steamer that built in Scotland 1894 as Birkenhead, renamed Gallic in 1907 and scrapped in Liverpool in 1914. She was designed and built as a Mersey Ferry for Birkenhead Corporation. White Star Line bought her in 1907 to use as a passenger tender, and renamed her Gallic.
SS Pontic was a tender and baggage vessel of the White Star Line that was built in 1894 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, United Kingdom. She was sold in 1919 and continued in that role. In 1925, she was sold and used as a collier. She was scrapped in 1930.
The SS Georgic was a steam ship built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line to replace the SS Naronic which was lost at sea. Georgic was a cargo ship designed principally to carry livestock, at the time of entering service in 1895 she was the largest cargo ship in the world with a deadweight tonnage of 12,000 tons.
Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet was a British naval officer, involved in several incidents of gunboat diplomacy. He is best remembered for his involvement in the "Virginius Affair" of 1873.
Drumchapel RFC was an early twentieth-century East Dunbartonshire-based rugby union club; the town – after being annexed in 1938 – now resides in Glasgow.
Albert Harvey was a Scottish rugby union player, and later a textile merchant. He was a founder of the Scottish Rugby Union and its second President.
John MacGill was a Scottish rugby union player. He became a referee and later was the 54th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. His regular playing position was Full back.
Osborne Football Club was a Scottish rugby union club in Greenock of the nineteenth century.
Fraser Gore was a Scotland international rugby union player. His regular playing position was Forward.
Lady Jean Alice Elaine Cochrane was a British aristocrat. She was the daughter of Winifred, Countess of Dundonald and Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald.
The third RMS St. Patrick was a steam packet ferry ordered by the St George Steam Packet Company after the loss of the second one and was registered B129 by her builders in Liverpool. Not much is known about her service life, but her sinking is a dramatic one. She was sold to Waterford Steam Packet Company in 1836. Research is currently being done from newspaper archives to compile the full sinking article with as much accuracy as is possible.
Lady Grizel Winifred Louise Hamilton was a Welsh and Scottish aristocrat.
Alexander McLaren was a Scotland international rugby union player.
SS Skirmisher was a steel tugboat and passenger tender of the Cunard Line built in 1884 for service in the Mersey at Liverpool. She was used in this role through the Cunard-White Star merger until 1941. She was sold for scrap in 1947.
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