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RMS Niagara was a transpacific steam ocean liner, Royal Mail Ship and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1912 in Scotland and sunk in 1940 by a mine off the coast of New Zealand. Her regular route was between Sydney and Vancouver via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu. In her 27-year career she made 162 round trips between Australia, New ...
RMS Niagara, Cunard Line ship launched in 1848; RMS Niagara, ocean liner launched in 1912 and sunk by a mine in 1940; SB Niagara, Thames sailing barge launched in 1898; SS Niagara, ocean liner launched in 1908 as Corse, renamed Niagara in 1910 and scrapped in 1931; USS Niagara: various United States Navy vessels of that name
Royal Mail aircraft-marking; on a British Airways Airbus A320-232 G-EUUI. In recent years the shift to air transport for mail has left only three ships with the right to the prefix or its variations: RMS Segwun, which serves as a passenger vessel in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada; RMV Scillonian III, which serves the Isles of Scilly; and RMS Queen Mary 2.
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In 1913 the Union Company introduced a new liner on the route, RMS Niagara. She was faster and far larger than any other ship in the company's fleet, and was an instant success. The company wanted to maintain a scheduled four-weekly service with just two ships. For this it wanted another ship as large and swift as Niagara.
She would replace RMS Niagara, which was launched in 1913, as CP Chairman Sir Edward Beatty said that the cost of building new liners for the route was too high. Canadian Pacific and the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand jointly owned the Canadian-Australasian Line, which faced subsidised competition from the US Matson Line .
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The steamship RMS Mauretania (1906) was constructed by Swan Hunter & Wingham Richardson, ship builders, not John Brown & Co.of Clydebank Scotland. HMS Maidstone (1937) HMS Mameluke (1915)