Article from the Archives: ‘Whatever Happened to Germanic/Homeric?’
It’s sometimes said that the White Star Line’s Germanic, laid down in July 1914, was intended as a replacement for Titanic on the Southampton to New York express service. In fact, she was designed to serve their secondary service from Liverpool to New York. The fortunes of war meant she was never completed. My article ‘Whatever Happened to Germanic/Homeric?‘, published in the Titanic Historical Society’s Titanic Commutator 2013: Volume 38 Number 201, examined her history and I’m highlighting it for those who might have missed it when it was first published.