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Mauretania at Curaçao, c. 1925 The ship's Verandah Café, located on the boat deck, c. 1927. Mauretania returned to civilian service on 21 September 1919, now serving on the Southampton to New York route. Mauretania at full speed on the measured mile, 1922. Her busy sailing schedule prevented her from having an extensive overhaul scheduled in ...
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
Cunard's Mauretania held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929 at 26.06 knots (48.26 km/h; 29.99 mph) NDL's Bremen finally broke Mauretania's record in 1929 by averaging 27.83 knots (51.54 km/h; 32.03 mph) The Italian Rex joined the Blue Riband club with a 1933 voyage of 28.92 knots (53.56 km/h; 33.28 mph) CGT's Normandie won the Blue Riband at 30. ...
Scrapped in 1923 1893 RMS Campania RMS Lucania [d] 12,950 GRT [24] 190 m (622 ft) 1893 – 1897 [25] Campania: Sank in 1918 Lucania: Scrapped in 1909 1897 SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse: 14,349 GRT [26] 200 m (655 ft) 1897 – 1899 [27] Sank in 1914 1899 RMS Oceanic: 17,272 GRT [28] 215 m (704 ft) 1899 – 1901 [29] Sank in 1914
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 ...
Mauretania (/ ˌ m ɒr ɪ ˈ t eɪ n i ə, ˌ m ɔːr ɪ-/; Classical Latin: [mau̯.reːˈt̪aː.ni.a]) [5] [6] is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb.It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic, [7] [8] encompassing northern present-day Morocco, and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlas Mountains. [7]
In Mauretania and the other French territories of the Sahara, the French colonial authorities did not enforce their anti-slavery laws, but tolerated the indigenous slave trade until the end of French colonial rule.