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RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the River Tyne, England for the Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910.
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner that was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England, and was completed in May 1939.She was one of the first ships built for the newly formed Cunard-White Star company following the merger in April 1934 of the Cunard and White Star Line.
RMS Mauretania (1906), launched in 1906 and in service until 1934 RMS Mauretania (1938) , launched in 1938 and scrapped in 1965 List of ships with the same or similar names
Captain Brown delivered the RMS Mauretania from retired lay-up in Southampton, to the breakers, arriving at Rosyth, in Scotland, at about 0600 hrs. on 4 July 1935, during a half-gale. Captain Brown commanded the new RMS Mauretania on her acceptance trials on the Clyde , out of Liverpool , from 31 May 1939, and on 17 June 1939 captained her ...
The trend of competing shipping lines building four-funnel liners encompassed a very short time span ranging from the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in 1897 to the RMS Windsor Castle in 1922. [5] The Cunard Line record holders, Lusitania and Mauretania, were both laid out with four boiler rooms with one funnel to each room.
RMS Aquitania was an ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank , Scotland . She was launched on 21 April 1913 [ 5 ] and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914.
Cunard's Mauretania held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929 at 26.06 knots (48.26 km/h; 29.99 mph) ... There is a persistent rumor that RMS ...
Leonard Peskett, OBE (1861 – 1924) [1] was the Cunard Line's Senior naval architect, designer [2] [3] and the designer of the company's ocean liners RMS Mauretania, RMS Lusitania, [4] RMS Aquitania, [5] and the RMS Carmania. Peskett came to Cunard in 1884 from H.M. Dockyard, where he had been an apprentice shipwright. He remained at Cunard ...