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RMS Homeric (1913)
RMS ''Homeric'', originally launched as ''Columbus'', was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd and launched in 1913 at the F. Schichau yard in Danzig. ''Columbus'' was ceded to Great Britain in 1919 as part of German war reparations. She was sold to White Star Line in 1920, which named her ''Homeric''. Her sister ship ''Hindenburg'' retained her German ownership and was renamed ''Columbus''. ''Homeric'' was operated by White Star from 1922 to 1935.
==History==
It took Britain's Cunard Line less than a year following World War I to re-establish their Atlantic supremacy with a three ship weekly service to New York. The ''Mauretania'', ''Aquitania'' and ironically enough, the very ship that was built to compete with them, the ''Imperator'' as the Berengaria, were all plying the Atlantic as if the war had never even happened. Cunard had lost only one superliner, the ''Lusitania'' in 1915, but White Star's fleet was another story. The 48,000-ton flagship ''Britannic'' was lost in the Aegean in 1916, and the superb 17,000-ton ''Oceanic'' of 1899 had been wrecked on the islands of Foula in 1914. When the war was over, the Treaty of Versailles appropriated two German superliners to White Star, the 56,000-ton ''Bismarck'', third and largest of Albert Ballin’s great ''Imperator'' Class trio, left unfinished at the Blohm & Voss Shipyard, and the 35,000-ton ''Columbus'' at F. Schicau in Danzig. While both ships had been launched, they were far from complete, and it would take a further two years for them to be outfitted entirely, effectively removing White Star from the Atlantic passenger trade until mid 1922.
Laid down in 1912, the ''Columbus'' was the first of two of vessels ordered by Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) for their premiere run, Bremerhaven to New York. At 35,000 tons, they would be large ships for their day. Powered by tried-and-true triple expansion reciprocating engines, the two new liners would be twin screw (the largest in the world until the advent of the ''Mauretania'' of 1938), and have a relatively modest service speed of just a shade over .
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