Big Four (White Star Line)
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The "Big Four" were a quartet of early-20th-century 20,000-ton ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line, to be the largest and most luxurious ships afloat. The group
RMS Celtic postcard
RMS Cedric at Sea
RMS Baltic 1
RMS Adriatic postcard
RMS Celtic
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RMS Celtic was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than SS Great Eastern by gross register tonnage, Celtic was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, the dubb
Big Four (White Star Line)
…ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line, to be the largest and most luxurious ships afloat. The group consisted of Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and Adriatic. In 1899, White Star Line commissioned the RMS Oceanic, which exceeded the SS Great Eastern in length but not tonnage…
Celtic was the first ship to exceed the tonnage of Great Eastern (pictured) of 1860.
Celtic under construction
Celtic in 1903
Celtic in 1919