encyclopedia titanica

SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gatesheadbased industrial services firm has won a sixfigure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her illfated maiden voyage The 1273 ton SS Nomadic steamship used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic has returned to the Harland Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a 2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there