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  Hospital Ships - Mauritania - Aquitania - Rohilla
She was launched on 20th September 1906 by the Duchess of Roxburge.
Her name "Mauretania" originated from a Berber kingdom on the coast of North Africa.
She was then refitted as a passenger liner until the RMS Queen Mary made her obsolete on 30 th June 1934 and was scrapped in 1935.
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  Wikipedia search result
RMS Titanic was a British Olympic class passenger liner that became famous for her collision with an iceberg on 14 April 1912 and dramatic sinking on 15 April 1912.
Photograph of an iceberg in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic’s sinking taken on April 15, 1912 by the chief steward of the liner Prinz Adelbert.
RMS Titanic Inc., a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions Inc., and its predecessors have conducted seven expeditions to the wreck between 1987 and 2004 and salvaged over 5,500 objects.
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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS Mauretania (also known as "Maury"), sister ship of the Lusitania, was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and was launched on September 20 1906.
Mauretania was about to fill the void left by Lusitania, but she was ordered by the British government to serve as a troopship to carry British troops during the Gallipoli campaign.
Some of the furnishings from the RMS Mauretania were installed in a bar/restaurant complex in Bristol called the Mauretania Bar (now Bar III), situated at the bottom of Park Street (the hill leading to the Wills Memorial Building of Bristol University) behind the Council House on College Green.
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  Australian Information from Wikipedia
The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, June 7, 1906.
She and her sister ship RMS Mauretania were built to compete with the German liners of the time.
The Mauretania held the record as fastest ship on the Atlantic for the next 20 years, until she lost the title to the North German Lloyd liner Bremen.
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 Mauretania - Quadruple Turbine Steamship - The Pride of the Tyne
Quadruple Turbine Steamship (QTSS) Mauretania, built at the Wallsend yard of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. was launched on 20 September 1906 by the Duchess of Roxburgh.
The Mauretania left the Tyne for the first time a year later in September 1907, at the time she was the biggest ship in the world at 31,937 tons.
Mauretania's maiden voyage was in 1907 from Liverpool to New York.
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 Allt om RMS Mauretania
Mauretania var dessutom byggd för att kunna användas i krig.
Mauretania började nu få rykte som pålitlig och att hålla tidtabellen.
Mauretania hade blivit så populär under sina 27 år att hennes nedmontering kom med stor sorg.
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Mauretania was driven by Steam turbines these where the fast mern sea turbines out her Service speed was 25 knots with a Gross Tonnage 31,938 tons she was very fast for her day with her 4 Quadruple screw perpolers.
Mauretania at the end of August the RMS Mauretania returned to Liverpool and was fitted out as a hospital ship.
But this was not the end of the RMS Mauretania not the end of her war service on September 29 it was requisitioned again to carry Canadian troops.
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 RMS Titanic - .ceneus.notes
RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her launching, and her builders hoped that she would dominate the transatlantic ocean liner business.
RMS Olympic and Titanic were assigned the yard numbers 400 and 401 respectively.
The Wreck of RMS Titanic, A detailed model researched Including technical notes on the sinking and the condition of the wreck.
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 Mauretania History Comes Alive in Bristol : ET Research (2001) by Gavin Murphy - 8 November 2001
The R.M.S. Mauretania is unique in being the only four-funnelled ship of British registry destined for north Atlantic service to be built in England.
The Mauretania registered 31,938 gross tons, was 790 feet long and 88 feet wide, and contained steam turbines and quadruple screws.
The Mauretania served in the First World War as a hospital ship and troop carrier, safely transporting thousands of British, Canadian and American soldiers through hostile waters and to and from war zones.
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Mauretania burnt 1,000 tons of coal a day and her fires were maintained by a stokehold ‘Black Gang’ of 324 firemen and trimmers.
Mauretania’s main staircase was panelled in French walnut with carved pilasters and capitals.
During the passage a storm blew up and the lines parted leaving Mauretania drifting dangerously close to the shore, however due to the bravery of the tugs crew the lines were once more attached and she was able to continue the voyage.
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 Wikipedia: RMS Titanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912.
The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line.
RMS Lancastria sank during the evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 with the loss of 4,000+ lives.
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 RMS Mauretania (1906) at AllExperts
RMS Mauretania (also known as "Maury"), sister ship of the Lusitania, was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and was launched on September 20 1906.
The name Mauretania was originated from a Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), not related to the modern Mauritania.
In 1928 Mauretania was modernised with new interior design and in the next year her speed record was broken by a German liner SS Bremen with a speed of 28 knots.
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 Mauretania | Hungarian | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, Spain's Plaza de soberanía and northern Morocco.
Mauretania bezeichnet:zwei römische Provinzen in Nordafrika, siehe Mauretania Caesariensis und Mauretania Tingitanaein Passagierschiff (Baujahr 1907), siehe RMS Mauretaniaein Passagierschiff (Baujahr 1939), siehe RMS Mauretania (II)
Mauretania Caesariensis, een provincia in het Imperium RomanumMauretania Tingitana, een provincia in het Imperium RomanumRMS Mauretania, een schip uit 1907RMS Mauretania (1938), de opvolger van de RMS Mauretania uit 1907
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 RMS Titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
RMS Titanic Inc. excluded from its motion any claim for an award of title to the 1987 artifacts.
RMS Tayleur, which has been compared to the sinking of the Titanic, sank after running aground in Ireland.
The White Star Line had also previously lost the RMS Atlantic on rocks near Nova Scotia in 1873 with 546 fatalities, and the SS Naronic in 1893, probably in an iceberg collision near the Titanic's position, with the loss of all 74 aboard.
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 RMS Mauretania: Facts
Mauretania reached the incredible speed of 32 knots, abeit only for an hour, her fastest speed ever reached.
Mauretania's turning circle at top speed was 3 3/4 ship lengths.
Mauretania proudly flew the Royal Standard in July of 1913 when King Georges V visited the ship, during festivities opening the Gladstone Dock.
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 RMS Titanic - ExampleProblems.com
RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.
RMS Titanic in the final stages of construction at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Ireland
Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility, which was written 14 years before RMS Titanic's ill-fated voyage, was found to have many parallels with the Titanic disaster; Robertson's work concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York.
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 RMS Titanic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.
RMS Titanic in the final stages of construction at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Ireland
Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility, which was written 14 years before RMS Titanic's ill-fated voyage, was found to have many parallels with the Titanic disaster; Robertson's work concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York.
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 Steamships - FUTEF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
RMS Queen Mary' was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967.
RMS Olympic' was the first of her class of ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included the ill-fated liners ''Titanic'' and ''Britannic''.
RMS Queen Elizabeth' was a steam-powered ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Company.
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 RMS Mauretania (1938) at AllExperts
RMS Mauretania was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead and was completed in May 1939.
A successor to RMS Mauretania (1906), the second Mauretania was the largest ship built in England up to that time and was the first ship built for the newly formed Cunard White Star company following the merger in 1933 of the Cunard and White Star lines.
Converted into a troopship at Sydney in 1940, Mauretania remained in that service through the end of the war, traveling 540,000 miles and carrying over 350,000 troops.
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 RMS LUSITANIA
The Lusitania was launched by Lady Inverclyde on the 7th June 1906 at 12.30 p.m.
On the 7th September 1907 under the command of Captain James B. Watt, the RMS Lusitania sailed on her maiden voyage to New York.
Passengers from the RMS Cameronia were transferred to the Lusitania when it was requisitioned early that morning.
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 Charlestown Shipwreck & Heritage Centre - Titanic and Ocean Liners
RMS Lusitania launched at the River Clyde in June 1906, the Lusitania was the largest liner afloat.
RMS Titanic - This 'floating palace' was built with the intention of being more of a hotel than an ocean liner and succeeded in becoming one of the most lavishly appointed ships ever to be built.
In 1912, after colliding with a massive iceberg, R.M.S. Titanic began her final passage to the bottom of the ocean with the loss of over 1500 lives.
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 TRANSATLANTIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
NOTES: The RMS Celtic was the first the first ship ever to exceed 20,000 gross tons and thus was the largest steamship in the world at the time of her launch in 1901.
NOTES: At the time of her first voyage in 1907, the RMS Mauretania was the largest passenger liner in the world, beating out her sister the Lusitania by 388 tons.
In July 1921 Mauretania was damaged by a fire, she was rebuilt to 30,696 gross tons and converted from coal to oil power.
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 RMS Titanic information - Search.com
RMS Titanic was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.
Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility, which was written 14 years before RMS Titanic's ill-fated voyage, was found to have many parallels with the Titanic disaster; Robertson's work concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York.
TDTSC RMS Titanic forums is a historical research and discussion forum which is available for people to discuss Titanic with each other from all over the world.
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 Lusitania & Mauretania Cunard Ocean Liners
The government lent them the money on condition that they were capable of being armed in times of national emergency - which was just as well as this was exactly what was to happen in later years.
Launched on the 7th of June 1906 the Lusitania was the largest vessel afloat at the time and the first with steam turbines and was capable of 25 knots.
The Mauretania held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929 and in later years was capable of averaging more than 26 knots on the transatlantic run.
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 Welcome to North Atlantic Run
She was launched by The Duchess of Roxburgh at the Neptune Works of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., with 30,000 spectators present despite the inclement weather.
Mauretania would soon be in the fitting out basin next to the launch cradle, and within a year she would leave Tyneside for her first trials.
From this distance the scale of the event and the overwhelming size of the Mauretania become apparent.
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 Model Warships.com
The Mauretania was indeed, as one First Class passenger wrote home in 1909 on a silk Stevengraph postcard (purchased in her Barber Shop), “…a floating palace”, with no expense spared in her construction and internal design, which had to meet Admiralty specifications in accordance with the terms of the subsidy.
After the Titanic disaster in 1912, Mauretania was equipped with additional boats and in the guise of a troop carrier she was furnished with large amounts of collapsible boats.
Mauretania in her trooper role carried, in addition to her extra collapsible and rigid boats, as far as I could ascertain from photos; no fewer than seven different types of liferafts, many in stacks, others loose on deck or propped up.
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 RMS Titanic - Wikipedia
RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.[1] Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, the Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching.
Construction of the RMS Titanic, funded by the American J.P. Morgan and his International Mercantile Marine Co., began on March 31, 1909.
The ratio has been repeated with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania and the sinking of the RMS Leinster.[10] Both were sunk by German U-Boats in World War One.
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