page_title: RMS Celtic (1901)
section_title: Final demise
hierarchical_section_title: RMS Celtic (1901) / History / Final demise
caption_attribution_description: English: White Star Line's Celtic ashore aground off the coast of Cobh, Ireland in 1928. Français&#160;: Le Celtic de la White Star Line échoué au large des côtes de Cobh, Irlande en 1928.
context_page_description: RMS Celtic was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than SS Great Eastern by gross register tonnage, Celtic was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed The Big Four.
context_section_description: Early on 10 December 1928, Celtic became stranded on the Cow and Calf rocks, adjacent to Roches Point as she approached Cobh with more than 200 passengers aboard. The Ballycotton Lifeboat T.P.Hearne 2, along with tugs, a destroyer and local life-saving teams, arrived.  Tenders from Cobh disembarked the passengers.  Seven thousand tons of cargo were scattered. A salvage team from Cox and Danks was provided to attempt recovery, but several men died after a hold loaded with grain and flooded with seawater was found to have filled with toxic fumes; due to structural failures it was judged the ship could not be moved or salvaged, and was abandoned to the insurance company who declared the ship to be a total loss. Celtic was completely dismantled for scrap by 1933.
caption: Celtic stranded on rocks.
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