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Mauretania during a speed trial off St Abbs Head, Scotland, 18 September 1907. The maximum speed attained was 25.73 kn (47.65 km/h) Mauretania departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16 November 1907 under the command of Captain John Pritchard, but failed to capture the Blue Riband due to a rough storm that broke free her spare anchor. She ...
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 ...
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]
Ship Built In service for Cunard Type GRT Notes Image Batavia: 1870: 1870–1888: Intermediate: 2,550: Traded in for Oregon 1884, scrapped 1924 : Abyssinia: 1870: 1870–1880: Express: 3,250: Sold to Guion Line 1880, destroyed by fire at sea 1891 [3]
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
On 4 September 1923, Empress of Canada arrived at Tokyo harbour—just three days after the devastating Great Kantō earthquake struck the city. Those aboard Empress of Canada found that the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Australia had been converted to a command post from which the British consul was directing relief work.