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SS ''Gallic'' was a paddle wheel steamship, built in 1894 as SS ''Birkenhead'' by John Scott & Co., Kinghorn, Fife. She was owned and operated by Birkenhead Corporation as a ferry on the River Mersey until being sold to the White Star Line in 1907 for use as a passenger tender to the company's various ocean liners. She was based at Cherbourg, but was soon considered too small for tending the increasingly large ships of the White Star Line's fleet. When Joseph Bruce Ismay proposed building the ''Olympic''-class liners, the company decided to build two new tenders, the (for first- and second-class passengers) and the (for third-class passengers and mail). ''Nomadic'' also tended to ''Traffic''s overspill of third-class passengers. ''Gallic'' was retained for a short time at Cherbourg, where she was occasionally used as a baggage vessel. The success of ''Nomadic'' and ''Traffic'' obviated the need for ''Gallic'' and she was scrapped in 1913 after a short period of being laid up. ==References== *(Gallic at titanic-titanic.com ) *(Gallic at encyclopedia-titanica.org ) *(Nomadic Preservation Society ) *(The White Star Line fleet ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Gallic (1894)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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