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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.
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 following is a list of ships that were operated by CP Ships or its predecessor companies, ... RMS Empress of China [5] 1890 1891 . Pacific, 1891–1911 1912
Pages in category "Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 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.
RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage.