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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 ...
Several ships have been named Niagara. They include: 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
RMS Niagara: 1912 Sank after striking a mine, June 19, 1940 R.M.S. Niagra: RMS Niagara (1847) 1847 Wrecked near South Stack, Anglesey on June 6, 1875 [1] SS Nieuw Amsterdam: 1937 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1974 Nieuw Amsterdam at Hook of Holland in 1949. SS Northern Star: 1961 Scrapped in 1975 S.S. Northern Star: RMS Nova Scotia: 1926
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.
RMS Niagara; O. HNLMS O 13; HMS Odin (N84) Italian auxiliary ship Olterra; HMS Orpheus (N46) French submarine Ouessant (Q180) P. French submarine Pasteur; SS Prins ...
RMS Rangitane, on 27 November 1940; a motor ship left Auckland on 24 November for Britain with a cargo of meat, dairy products and wool. She transmitted that she was under attack, and the "savage and ruthless" shelling killed 16 people (8 passengers and 8 crew). The liner RMS Niagara was sunk by a mine laid by Orion off Whangarei on 19 June ...
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 .
19 June: RMS Niagara hits a mine off Bream Head, Northland; 2 August: Home Guard established. 20 August: German raider Orion sinks the steamer Turakina off Cape Egmont. October: Stanley Graham kills 7 in shooting spree near Hokitika; 25 November: Steamer Holmwood sunk by German raiders off the Chatham Islands.