What is SS Nomadic?
{{update|date=February 2024}} {{Orphan|date=May 2009}} '''SS ''Nomadic''''' is a retired steam ship of the [[White Star Line]]. She was built as a [[:en:Ship's_tender|tender]] to the ocean liners [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] and [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]. SS Nomadic is the last remaining boat built for the White Star Line still afloat.[[File:Nomadic.jpg|thumb|260px|''Nomadic'' in [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]] (1911).]] ==History== The [[:en:Keel|keel]] of ''Nomadic'' was laid down in the [[:en:Harland_&_Wolff|Harland and Wolff]] [[shipyard]]s, [[Belfast]] in 1910 (yard number 422). She was launched on [[25 April]] [[1911]] and delivered to the White Star Line on the [[27 May]]. The ship is 67 meters (220 ft) long and 11.3 meters (37 ft) wide, with a [[:en:Gross_tonnage|gross tonnage]] of 1,273 tons. She had two three-bladed [[Propeller|screws]], with a maximum speed of 12 [[Knot (speed)|knots]]. With her sister ship [[:en:SS_Traffic_(1911)|SS ''Traffic'']], ''Nomadic'' was used as a tender for ''Titanic'' and ''Olympic'' at [[Cherbourg]] in [[France]]. This meant she would taxi the second and first passengers from Cherbourg to''Titanic or'' ''Olympic. SS Traffic however, was used to taxi third class passengers onto the Titanic or Olympic'' In 1927, she was sold to Compagnie Cherbourghoise de Transbordement and then sold again to the Société Cherbourghoise de Remorquage et de Sauvetage in 1934. Then she was changed to the name ''Ingenieur Minard'', she again served as troop ship in [[World War II]]. After the war she continued tendering Cunard White Star (White Star Lines and ''Cunard'' merged in 1934) ships until November 1968. She then served [[:en:RMS_Queen_Elizabeth|RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'']] for the last time. In 1974, ''Nomadic'' was bought by a private individual and converted into a restaurant on the [[Seine]] in [[Paris]], where she remained docked and semi-abandoned after the closure of the restaurant, until she was moved to the port of [[Le Havre]] in 2003. ==Preservation of ''Nomadic'