the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania captured the eastbound Blue Riband...
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named RMS Mauretania, after the ancient territory of Mauretania: RMS Mauretania (1906), launched in 1906 and in service until 1934 RMS Mauretania (1938)...
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of: Mauretania Tingitana Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Sitifensis RMS Mauretania (1906), an ocean liner in service until 1934 RMS Mauretania (1938)...
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third in Cunard Line's grand trio of express liners, preceded by RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, and was the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner...
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famously RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and RMS Carpathia which rescued survivors from RMS Titanic...
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previous century. She was launched on 20 September 1906, the same day as the Cunard Line's Mauretania. She was then completed in dry dock and delivered...
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Queen Elizabeth 2 (redirect from RMS QE2)
motif from the first RMS Mauretania (1906) and an Art-Deco bas-relief titled Winged Horse and Clouds by Norman Foster from RMS Queen Elizabeth. There...
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City – 18 June 1911 encyclopedia-titanica.org Chirnside 2004, p. 28. "RMS Mauretania". Chirnside, Mark (2011). The 'Olympic' Class Ships. The History Press...
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Titanic (redirect from Rms titanic)
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to...
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Cunard responded by building two new 'ocean greyhounds': Lusitania and RMS Mauretania. Cunard used assistance from the British Admiralty to build both new...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from RMS Britannic)
called the Dardanelles service). The first to sail were Cunard's RMS Mauretania and RMS Aquitania. As the Gallipoli landings proved to be disastrous and...
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advent of several British superliners such as RMS Olympic (1910), RMS Lusitania (1906) and RMS Mauretania (1906), the four flyers seemed old, their interiors...
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Russian indie group Chimera. The RMS Mauretania (1906) is remembered in a song, "The fireman's lament" or "Firing the Mauretania", collected by Redd Sullivan...
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Fada (K390) MV Lochkatrine (1921) MV Lumen (1925) RMS Lusitania HMS Lynx (F27) The steamship RMS Mauretania (1906) was constructed by Swan Hunter & Wingham Richardson...
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SS Massilia 1920 Scuttled in 1944 and scrapped in 1946 RMS Mauretania 1906 Scrapped in 1935 RMS Mauretania 1938 Scrapped in 1965 MS Marnix van Sint Aldegonde...
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Chelsea Piers (category RMS Titanic)
Sports Network. RMS Lusitania at Pier 54 Chelsea Piers and Lusitania about 1910 People waiting for the ocean liner RMS Mauretania (1906) at the Cunard...
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of Tango", dies in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia. July 1 – RMS Mauretania (1906) sails from Southampton to Rosyth to be broken up. July 22 – Inauguration...
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based at Witley Camp, until it sailed from Southampton on board the "RMS Mauretania (1906)" on 3 May 1919. It arrived at Halifax, NS, on 9 May and was demobilized...
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builder's model of Lusitania, repainted after the sinking to represent RMS Mauretania, is displayed at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova...
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its launch in August 1906. British competition was also fierce, Cunard's Lusitania launched in 1906 followed by her sister Mauretania were an instant success...
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tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth. The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time...
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There have been several legends and myths surrounding the RMS Titanic and its destruction after colliding with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. These...
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decorator, one of his most famous commissions had been for the liner, RMS Mauretania (1906). They renamed it ‘Buick House’ and from 1923 it remained the Lendrum...
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and RMS Queen Mary all sported three funnels to conserve deck space. Later, as shipbuilding became more efficient, RMS Queen Elizabeth, Mauretania, Bremen...
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National Pageant of Wales is held at Cardiff Castle. 30 August – RMS Mauretania (1906) calls at Fishguard. October – Monthly rainfall of 56.5 inches (1...
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player Arthur Tillotson Brown (1878–1942), last captain of the first RMS Mauretania Arthur Whitten Brown (1886–1948), Scottish aviator Roy Brown (RAF officer)...
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RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway...
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Hunter and Wigham Richardson shipbuilders on Tyneside, who built the RMS Mauretania (1906). Karney was a talented amateur photographer in the 1960s specialising...
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passengers. Besides the Titanic, of the White Star liners, only RMS Adriatic (1906) and RMS Olympic (1911) featured Turkish baths on board, although one...
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Jack Phillips (wireless officer) (category Deaths on the RMS Titanic)
Line's Corsican, Pretorian and Victorian; and then Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania. In May 1908, he was assigned to the Marconi station outside Clifden,...
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