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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
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.
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic .
Following this competition, a sister ship was commissioned in 1901. Two more followed. However, by 1912, with the advent of several British superliners such as RMS Olympic (1910), RMS Lusitania (1906) and RMS Mauretania (1906), the four flyers seemed old, their interiors stuffy and their technology behind the times.
English: The steamship Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line in 1906. The Turbinia, alongside, was the first steam turbine-powered steamship; built as an experimental vessel in 1894.
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