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2. List of Cunard Line ships - Wikipedia

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   Built for Thompson Line, purchased by Cunard 1911, sold to Bank Line 1912, scrapped 1930 [3] Ausonia: 1909: 1911–1918: Intermediate: 7,907: Ex-Tortona built for Thompson Line, purchased by Cunard 1911, sunk by SM U-62 30 May 1918. Ascania: 1911: 1911–1918: Intermediate: 9,100: Wrecked 1918: Caria : 1900: 1911–1915: Cargo ship: 3,023: Sunk ...

3. RMS Laconia (1911) - Wikipedia

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   RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, with the wife of the U.S. Ambassador Mrs. Whitelaw Reid christening the vessel. [1] Laconia was delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. [2] She was the first Cunard ship of that name.

4. Category:Ships of the Cunard Line - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Ships of the Cunard Line" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. ... (1911) RMS Laconia (1921) RMS Lancastria; SS Lavia; RMS ...

5. RMS Franconia (1910) - Wikipedia

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   The RMS Franconia was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line.She was launched on 23 July 1910 at the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend shipyard. [1] Franconia was intended for the line's Boston service, being the largest ship of the time to enter Boston harbor, with winter service in the New York-Mediterranean cruising service.

6. Cunard Line - Wikipedia

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   The next year Cunard commissioned two ships to compete directly with the Celtic-class liners on the secondary Liverpool–New York route. In 1911 Cunard entered the St Lawrence trade by purchasing the Thompson line, and absorbed the Royal line five years later. [5]

7. RMS Albania (1900) - Wikipedia

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   She was sold by Thomson Line in 1911 to Cunard Line and renamed Albania, along with Ausonia and Ascania.These three ships were designed to sail on the Southampton - Halifax route and were also the first Cunard ocean liners to sail from Southampton.

8. RMS Mauretania (1906) - Wikipedia

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   The ship was known by the Admiralty as HMS Tuberose [30] until the end of the war, [28] [dubious – discuss] but the vessel's name was never changed by Cunard. Starting in March 1918, Mauretania received two forms of dazzle camouflage , a type of abstract colour scheme designed by Norman Wilkinson in 1917 in an effort to confuse enemy ships.

9. RMS Saxonia (1899) - Wikipedia

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   Around 1900, the Cunard Line faced tight competition from the British White Star Line and the German lines Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg America (HAPAG). Cunard ' s largest liners, as of 1898 RMS Campania and RMS Lucania, had a reputation for size and speed, both being of 12,950 gross register tons (grt) and having held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. [1]