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Royal Mail aircraft-marking; on a British Airways Airbus A320-232 G-EUUI. In recent years the shift to air transport for mail has left only three ships with the right to the prefix or its variations: RMS Segwun, which serves as a passenger vessel in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada; RMV Scillonian III, which serves the Isles of Scilly; and RMS Queen Mary 2.
Royal Mail signage at a Toronto post office built in 1833.The British Royal Mail administered the Province of Canada's postal system until 1851.. On August 3, 1527, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the first known letter was sent from present day Canada. [10]
Segwun still maintains its Canada Post 'R.M.S.' designation as an official Royal Mail Ship. [3] As part of a fundraising venture, she once carried her own private label wine which was distributed throughout Ontario by the L.C.B.O. [4] In 2001 & 2002, Segwun was voted 'Best Large Attraction' by Attractions Canada.
RMS Niagara was a transpacific steam ocean liner, Royal Mail Ship and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1912 in Scotland and sunk in 1940 by a mine off the coast of New Zealand. Her regular route was between Sydney and Vancouver via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu. In her 27-year career she made 162 round trips between Australia, New ...
In 1854, Hugh launched the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company as part of the Allan Line, and two years later ousted Samuel Cunard to take control of the Royal Mail contract between Britain and North America. By the 1880s, the Allan Line was the world's largest privately owned shipping concern.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique (everywhere by sea). After a troubled start, it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line . [ 1 ]
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