This worked well, initially, but the motion of the ship caused gas leaks to develop at the joints in the pipework and the system had to be removed. A machine was added to the engine room to produce gas from oil. Up to this point, ships' cabins had been lit by oil lamps, but the builders decided to try new gas lamps on Adriatic and her sister, Celtic. As a part of this process, a technology new to that era was tried on the ship. 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.ĭuring the remainder of 1871 and the early part of 1872, Adriatic was fitted out. The White Star Line's first four steamships, the ( Oceanic (I), Atlantic, Baltic, and the Republic) met with great success in the trans-Atlantic market, and the line decided to build two more. SS Adriatic was the first of two White Star Line ocean liners to carry the name Adriatic.
Adriatic by George Parker Greenwood, (1889)
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