Adriatic (II)
RMS Adriatic (II) was launched at Harland and Wolff on 20th September 1906, on the same day that Cunard's Mauritania was launched.
Her maiden voyage started on 8th May 1907 from Liverpool - New York, just like Titanic she was under the command of Captain EJ Smith. On her return instead of landing at Liverpool she landed at Southampton.
When Adriatic left Southampton on 5th June 1907 she became the first White Star ship to regularly depart from Southampton.
In October 1908 four of Adriatic's crew members were arrested in New York after $6,000 worth of items belonging to passengers were stolen and then discovered in the crew's quarters.
On 4th November 1909, under the command of Captain EJ Smith, Adriatic ran aground on a sand bank at the entrance to the Ambrose channel, near New York. Although undamaged, Adriatic was not able to move from the sand bank until nearly 5 hours later.
When Olympic entered service in 1911, Adriatic moved from Southampton to White Star's Liverpool to New York service.
On 2nd May 1912 Adriatic left New York with J Bruce Ismay, Titanic's surviving officers and another thirty members of Titanic's crew. Adriatic arrived in Liverpool on 11th April.
When leaving New York in fog on 7th January 1913, Adriatic ran aground on the Red Hook mud flats. She was stuck for around 4-5 hours.
On 29th September 1919 Adriatic collided with the freighter St Michael. Adriatic was not damaged while St Michael sustained some damage to her plates.
Adriatic returned back to the Southampton service in 1919, until 1922 when she returned to the Liverpool service.
From 1926 she was mostly used only as a cruise ship and in 1928 she was converted to cabin class.
When Cunard and White Star merged in May 1934 it was decided that it was the end for Adriatic, so after that years cruise season finished she was laid up and sold for scrap.
