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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 ...
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 .
Despite a major refit later in her career, Olympic was outdated compared to newer ships. Following the merger of the White Star Line and Cunard Line in 1934, in April 1935 due to the excess tonnage within the new combined fleet of ships Olympic was withdrawn, sold for breaking and towed to Jarrow for scrapping.
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.
During the Falklands War, QE2 and Cunard Countess were chartered as troopships [66] while Cunard's container ship Atlantic Conveyor was sunk by an Exocet missile. [ 67 ] Cunard acquired the Norwegian America Line in 1983, with two classic ocean liner /cruise ships. [ 68 ]
The Cunard Line record holders, Lusitania and Mauretania, were both laid out with four boiler rooms with one funnel to each room. In keeping with the style and fashion of the early-20th century, the White Star Line opted to fit the three Olympic -class ships with a dummy fourth funnel to rival the two Cunard ships.
Collided with the Cunard Line's Parthia in 1874. Rammed and sank the British schooner Columbus in Crosby Channel Liverpool and rammed and sank Harvest Queen in St. George's Channel in 1875. Rammed Hengist off Holyhead and rammed and sank brig G. A. Pike off Wales in 1878. Scrapped at Preston in 1899. Celtic: 1872: 1872–1893: 3,867
The sinking of RMS Laconia newspaper report, 26 February 1917. 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 ...
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