152 Book of Steamships 



four the City of Paris was really the 

 fastest. 



The Majestic was withdrawn from ser- 

 vice just before the Great War began in 

 1914, and was sold to the shipbreakers. 

 They got to work so quickly that the 

 poor old ship was gone beyond recall 

 when the need for every possible vessel 

 became so apparent. It is interesting 

 to find, however, that though she 

 could not serve on the sea, her plating 

 went into shells which helped the man 

 ashore. 



The Teutonic, on the other hand, went 

 on the service for which both vessels had 

 been subsidised, that is as an armed 

 cruiser, the guns having always been ready 

 for an emergency such as now arose. She 

 served with the tenth cruiser squadron 

 throughout the War, and did very useful 

 work indeed. She was sold by the White 

 Star to the Admiralty in 1915, and after 

 doing service as a troop-ship when the 

 Armistice released her from patrol duties, 



