good morning,not so, the workforce lived locally. The builders report in 1903 concluded that it would not be cost effective to bring the 29-year-old ship up to modern standards, instead, she was sold for scrap for £11,500, and on 11 August 1903 she left Belfast under tow to Hamburg where she was broken up.
Her sister ship, the 'Germanic' survived (76 years in service) - including the following two world wars under various owners, American, Canadian and Turkish, until she was scrapped In October 1950.
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