SS Celtic was a steamship built for the
White Star Line by shipbuilders
Harland and Wolff of
Belfast.The Celtic (later the Amerika), the first of two White Star ships to bear the name, was one of a pair of
Oceanic-class liners commissioned by White Star, following the success of their first four steamships (the
Adriatic being the other of the new pair). The new ship was originally supposed to be named the Arctic, but since the American Collins Line had had a
paddle-wheel steamer with that name which had sunk in
1854, the White Star management changed their minds, and settled on the name Celtic.
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