The White Star Line, while being a British shipping company, featured a ship with adjectival reference to what country?
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SS Gallic Two ships of the White Star Line have borne the name SS "Gallic", an adjectival reference to France:
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White Star Line The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packers, more commonly known as just White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company.
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Søren Larsen (ship) The tallship Søren Larsen is a brigantine built in 1949 in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark. Her current homeport is Sydney, Australia.
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RMS Britannia RMS "Britannia" was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on 5 February 1840, at the yard of Robert Duncan & Company in Greenock, Scotland. The ship and her sisters, "Acadia", "Caledonia", and "Columbia", were the first ocean liners built by the company.
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RMS Gaelic (1885) RMS "Gaelic" was a passenger and cargo liner built for the White Star Line. She transported the first 102 Korean immigrants to the United States. Sold in 1905 for further service in the Pacific, she was scrapped in 1907.
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HMS Leven (1813) HMS "Leven", was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship (sometimes referred to as a sloop) of the "Cyrus" class, for the Royal Navy. She was built in Ipswich, and launched on 23 December 1813. She was notable as the survey ship that mapped large stretches of the coast of Africa in a voyage from 1821 to 1826, under the command of Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen. Leven Point near Cape Vidal in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is named after the ship.
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Active (1800 ship) Active was a French ship launched in 1793. She came into British hands circa 1799 as a prize. Peter Everitt Mestaer purchased her and named her "Active". She made one voyage to India for the British East India Company, which held a monopoly at the time on trade between Great Britain and India or China. From 1802 she was a London-based merchantman, trading first with Hamburg and then more generally. She was last listed in 1815.
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PS America PS "America" was a paddle wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891. Together, with her sister ship  , she tendered the various White Star Liners which stopped to embark passengers at Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh). She is best known for her assistance of the  , who was making her final call of port at Queenstown on her maiden voyage. "America" embarked 123 passengers onto "Titanic" (three First-Class, seven Second-Class and one hundred-thirteen Third-Class). The "Titanic" sank on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, with three-fourths of her maiden voyage completed.
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MS Amsterdam MS "Amsterdam" is a cruise ship owned and operated by Holland America Line, named for the city of Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. She is the fourth and last ship of the Rotterdam class (R class), which includes MS "Rotterdam", MS "Volendam", and MS "Zaandam". She was co-flagship of the line along with her sister ship  .
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Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship The "Eidsvold" class was a class of coastal defence ships, two of which were built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1899 by Armstrong Whitworth. The class consisted of two ships,  and  . Locally they were referred to as "panserskip" (lit.: armoured ship).
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Hercules (1801 ship) Hercules was a sailing ship built in 1801 at South Shields, England. She made one trip transporting convicts to Port Jackson. She made two trips for the British East India Company (EIC), and was homeward bound from the second of these when the French privateer "Napoleon" captured her off the Cape of Good Hope.
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Restauration (ship) Restauration was a sloop built in 1801 in Hardanger, Norway. It became a symbol of Norwegian American immigration. Historical sources may contain several variations on the name of the sloop, including "Restauration", "Restoration", "Restaurasjonen", and "Restorasjon".
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Mauritius Shipping Corporation Mauritius Shipping Corporation Ltd. ("MSCL") is a small Cargo-passenger ship company operating on routes to and from Mauritius to Rodrigues and occasionly to Agalega.
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List of Empire ships (P) The Empire ships were a series of ships in the service of the British Government. Their names were all prefixed with "Empire". Mostly they were used during World War II by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), who owned the ships but contracted out their management to various shipping lines. Some ships requisitioned during the Suez Crisis were also given the "Empire" prefix. They were acquired from a number of sources. Many were built for the MoWT, others obtained from the United States, still others were captured or seized from enemy powers.
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Shaw, Savill &amp; Albion Line Shaw, Savill and Albion Line was the trading name of Shaw, Savill and Albion Steamship Company: a British shipping company that operated ships between Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie ("German East Africa Line") was a shipping line, established in 1890 as an alternative to the existing shipping services to East Africa, including German East Africa (1891–1919), then dominated by United Kingdom shipping lines.
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Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy There are many customs and traditions associated with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, many of these traditions have carried on to other Commonwealth navies, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These include formal customs including separate crests associated with ships, ensigns and fleet reviews. There are also several less formal customs and traditions including Naval slang commonly referred to as Jack Speak and the traditional games of Uckers and Euchre. Winston Churchill probably never dismissed the customs of the Royal Navy as "..nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.”
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MV Melbourne Star (1936) MV "Melbourne Star" was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936 as one of Blue Star Line's "Imperial Star" -class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. She served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her rôle in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was sunk by torpedo in 1943 with the loss of 115 lives.
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SS Calgaric SS "Calgaric was an ocean liner built in 1918 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company as Orca". In 1927, she was sold to the White Star Line and renamed "Calgaric". She remained in service until 1934.
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SS Columbus (1924) The Columbus, laid down before the start of World War I, was originally to be named "Hindenburg". However, her then-sister, originally named "Columbus", was handed over to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920. The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL), her owners, to keep the remaining ship. NDL decided to give her the name of her departed sister, now the British "Homeric". Construction, which had been held up by the war, resumed at Schichau Shipyards in Danzig, Germany.
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RMS Atlantic RMS "Atlantic" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of  on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of "Titanic" in April 1912.
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SS Belgic Four ships of the White Star Line have been named SS "Belgic":