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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.
Collides with Cunard Line's RMS Scythia in Queenstown in 1923, and collides with Van in Boston in 1926. Scrapped at Inverkeithing in 1932 by Thos. W. Ward. Victorian: 1895: 1903–1904: 8,825: Launched in 1895 by Harland & Wolff for Leyland Line under Victorian, chartered by White Star.
Pages in category "Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company" ... RMS Amazon (1906) HMT Aragon; SS Arcadian; RMS Atrato (1853) RMS Atrato (1888) D. RMS Douro; M.
RML was also a leading cruise ship operator. RMS's largest ship was the 25,895 GRT turbine steamship RMS Andes. She was designed as an ocean liner but when launched in 1939 was immediately fitted out as a troopship. She finally entered civilian liner service in 1948, was converted to full-time cruising in 1960 and was scrapped in 1971. [16]
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 .
The ship, however, remained popular and she was the third busiest in the early 1930s behind those two German liners. [49] RMS Queen Elizabeth, the ocean liner intended to replace Aquitania upon her arrival in 1940. To keep the ship up to date, she underwent a refit, which added a cinema, between 1932 and 1933.
RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and lost at sea in a collision in 1909 while sailing for the White Star Line. The ship was equipped with a new Marconi wireless telegraphy transmitter , and issued a CQD distress call, resulting in the saving of around 1,500 lives.
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.