 The Inman Line was merged into International Navigation's American Line.As a part of the change, the former Inman liners now used Southampton as their UK destination rather than Liverpool, ending their direct rivalry with the White Star pair until 1907 when "Teutonic" and "Majestic" were also transferred to Southampton.At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, "City of New York" was chartered as an auxiliary cruiser with a civilian crew, commissioning on 26 April 1898 at New York, Captain C. S. Cotton in command and renamed "Harvard".