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[[File:Belfast's Harland and Wolff Shipyard (RMS Adriatic), 1907 (crop).jpg|thumb|left|''Adriatic'' just before launching, [[September 1906]]]]
[[File:Belfast's Harland and Wolff Shipyard (RMS Adriatic), 1907 (crop).jpg|thumb|left|''Adriatic'' just before launching, [[September 1906]]]]


At the end of the 19th century, White Star Line, under the leadership of [[Thomas Henry Ismay]], changed its policy to embark on the construction of ships which no longer sought to dominate in the area of speed, but to transport passengers en masse and regularly on spacious and comfortable liners. This resulted in the commissioning of the [[Big Four (White Star Line)|Big Four]], four large, moderate-speed liners ordered at the start of the new century. The first, the [[RMS Celtic (1901)|''Celtic'']], entered service in 1901, followed by the [[RMS Cedric|''Cedric'']] in 1903 and the [[RMS Baltic (1903)|''Baltic'']] in 1904.<ref>{{harvnb|Anderson|1964|p=89}}</ref> The fourth ship in the series, the ''Adriatic'', was ordered from [[Harland and Wolff]] shipyards in Belfast in December 1903, but she wasn't completed until May 1907, a strangely long delay.<ref name=RA90>{{harvnb|Anderson|1964|p=90}}</ref> This delay could be explained by the fact that the shipyards were building the [[USS America (ID-3006)|''Amerika'']] at the same time, with a similar profile.<ref name=RK127>{{harvnb|de Kerbrech|2009|p=127}}</ref> Harland and Wolff built ''Adriatic'' on [[slipway]] number three of its North Yard in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name=Yard>{{cite web |url= http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=358 |title=Adriatic |work=Harland and Wolff |access-date=28 November 2020}}</ref>
At the end of the 19th century, White Star Line, under the leadership of [[Thomas Henry Ismay]], changed its policy to embark on the construction of ships which no longer sought to dominate in the area of speed, but to transport passengers en masse and regularly on spacious and comfortable liners. This resulted in the commissioning of the [[Big Four (White Star Line)|Big Four]], four large, moderate-speed liners ordered at the start of the new century. The first, the [[RMS Celtic (1901)|''Celtic'']], entered service in 1901, followed by the [[RMS Cedric|''Cedric'']] in 1903 and the [[RMS Baltic (1903)|''Baltic'']] in 1904.<ref>{{harvnb|Anderson|1964|p=89}}</ref> The fourth ship in the series, the ''Adriatic'', was ordered from [[Harland and Wolff]] shipyards in Belfast in December 1903, but she wasn't completed until May 1907, a strangely long delay.<ref name=RA90>{{harvnb|Anderson|1964|p=90}}</ref> This delay could be explained by the fact that the shipyards were building the [[USS America (ID-3006)|''Amerika'']] at the same time, with a similar profile.<ref name=RK127>{{harvnb|de Kerbrech|2009|p=127}}</ref> Harland and Wolff built ''Adriatic'' on [[slipway]] number three of its North Yard in [[Belfast]], [[Northern_Ireland]].<ref name=Yard>{{cite web |url= http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=358 |title=Adriatic |work=Harland and Wolff |access-date=28 November 2020}}</ref>


To continue to own the largest ships in the world, White Star had asked the shipyards to enlarge the ''Baltic'' during its construction; the ship measured nearly 3,000 tons more than its predecessor, but it was in return slightly slower: its machines not having been modified.<ref>{{harvnb|de Kerbrech|2009|p=122}}</ref> In the case of the ''Adriatic'', it was decided to give her a size similar to the ''Baltic'' (her tonnage nevertheless surpassing that of the ''Baltic'' by a few hundred tons), but she was equipped significantly more powerful machines in order to allow her to maintain a better speed.<ref name=RK127/> Her name, in reference to the [[Adriatic Sea]], was also given to her in reference to a [[SS Adriatic (1871)|previous liner of the same name]] which served the company for almost thirty years at the end of the previous century.<ref>{{harvnb|Haws|1990|p=34}}</ref>
To continue to own the largest ships in the world, White Star had asked the shipyards to enlarge the ''Baltic'' during its construction; the ship measured nearly 3,000 tons more than its predecessor, but it was in return slightly slower: its machines not having been modified.<ref>{{harvnb|de Kerbrech|2009|p=122}}</ref> In the case of the ''Adriatic'', it was decided to give her a size similar to the ''Baltic'' (her tonnage nevertheless surpassing that of the ''Baltic'' by a few hundred tons), but she was equipped significantly more powerful machines in order to allow her to maintain a better speed.<ref name=RK127/> Her name, in reference to the [[Adriatic Sea]], was also given to her in reference to a [[SS Adriatic (1871)|previous liner of the same name]] which served the company for almost thirty years at the end of the previous century.<ref>{{harvnb|Haws|1990|p=34}}</ref>
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