The ship was built in 1899 and was at the time the biggest ship in the world. Her design was considered as quite elegant with many describing her as “yacht-like”. As the flagship of White Star, she operated on the Liverpool--New York kine until the outbreak of WW1. She became the first White Star Liner on which a mutiny took place: in 1905, 30 coalers took possesion of the ship demanding better work conditions. The ship tried but wasn’t able to help the RMS Titanic during her sinking in 1912, being too far away.
She was lost on 7 September 1914, when she collided with a cliff near the Scottish island Foula after having been converted into an auxiliary cruiser. (Wikipedia)
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