Less than a year after the White Star Line-owned vessels left the city, the Nomadic was employed to transport first and second class passengers from the French port of Cherbourg to the Titanic ahead of its ill-fated maiden Atlantic voyage.
's ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage: a British voyage that set out to establish a sailing route through the Arctic and ended with the untimely, mysterious deaths of its two ship crews.
The ill-fated liner, which sank with the loss of 1, 500 lives on its maiden transatlantic voyage in 1912, was built at Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard.