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	The Pichs Collection: Postal History
		She was the first mail packet to sail to the West Indies for the new Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, her maiden voyage from Southampton beginning on December 31, 1841.
		Coinciding with the initiation of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company contract, and the establishment of its new routes to the West Indies, postal agencies were opened at consular offices in various non-British possessions.
		The Royal Mail steamer Thames, in Havana harbor, had been loaded with mail from the British consulate on February 15, and was ready to sail, when a Spanish complaint was received that this action was not in compliance with Spanish regulations.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /pichs/postal/international05.htm (613 words)

	Royal Mail Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Mail Ship (or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used of any seagoing vessel that carries mail under contract to the British Royal Mail.
		It was used by a large number of companies, but is often associated in particular with the Cunard line, which held a number of high-profile mail contract business, and which traditionally prefixed the titles of all its ships with the initials "RMS".
		Helena in the South Atlantic, and RMS Queen Mary 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Mail_Steamer (328 words)

	As the band played on, Titanic postmen tried to save the mail \| the Daily Mail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the flooded mail room, postmaster Oscar Woody and his staff fought bravely to salvage some of the 3,500 sacks of post the ship was carrying across the Atlantic.
		Mr Aldridge said: 'The Titanic was a Royal Mail steamer and one of her tasks was to carry the mail from here to the U.S..
		The Royal Mail spokesman said "We often experience difficulty with letter-boxes which are too small (this one was huge-big enough to take an elephant, well not quite, an elephant - unwrapped) and that have springs, which are too strong, we will contact the businessman concerned." - I kid you not.
	www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=446793&in_page_id=1770 (1477 words)

	Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto : The Royal Mail Line, 1840 TO 57
		In the next year, 1844, the Royal Mail Steamers recommenced their trips early in May, there being no alterations whatever between Toronto and Kingston, either in the vessels or their commanders, but a third steamer, known as the Caledonia, was added to those running between Kingston and Montreal.
		The three steamers were the Magnet, Arabian and Passport, the two former still under their old commanders, while the last was under Captain Harbottle, in place of Captain Twohy, the former remaining in command of her for many subsequent years.
		The Royal Mail Line had now lost its distinctive character, the bulk of the mails being at this time carried by the railways, but it is impossible to conclude this description of the line without a brief reference to some of its leading officials and ship owners.
	www.hhpl.on.ca /Greatlakes/Documents/Robert2?ID=c009 (4041 words)

	Ship prefix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Each navy has its own system: the United States Navy uses hull classification symbols, and the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth use pennant numbers.
		Royal Corps of Logistics Vessel (not currently in use)
		In the Royal Netherlands Navy, "HNLMS" is the prefix in English, a translation of the Dutch original "Hr.Ms." or "Zr.Ms.".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ship_prefix (780 words)

	Ron's Liverpool - Ships P
		The steamers maiden voyage was New York to Liverpool [16].
		Royal Mail steamer used on the Liverpool to Quebec crossings [08].
		The Royal Mail steamer was also used on the Liverpool to Quebec crossings [08].
	members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/liverpool/ships_p.htm (515 words)

	Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Ser. II, Vol. 2, Ch 3.
		The mail agent, who is a retired commander in the British navy, seemed to have a great deal to say as to the propriety of my course, but I purposely avoided all official intercourse with him.
		A short time before leaving the steamer I was informed by one of her crew that the mail agent was advising the captain to arm the crew and passengers of his ship, which I immediately communicated to Lieutenant Greer.
		As respects the steamer in which they embarked I ascertained in the Havana that she was a merchant vessel plying between Vera Cruz, the Havana and Saint Thomas carrying the mail by contract.
	www.simmonsgames.com /research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S2-V2-C3.html (17414 words)

	Steamer Trunk Merchants: Cunard Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the time Samuel Cunard founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steamer Packet Company in 1839, he was barely 25, but his destiny as the father of "Queens" was already molded.
		A "bright, tight little man with keen eyes" according to one of his friends, he was also unstoppable—without much more ado, the mail steamer Britannic made it into Boston harbor via Halifax in 15 days.
		Lusitania was touted as the largest ship in the world and before WWI, it set a record held for 22 years as the fastest transatlantic carrier.
	www.steamertrunkmerchants.com /Salon/SteamshipLines/cunardinfo.htm (226 words)

	Royal Steamer,Extractor,Steamer,Carpet Shampooer
		The Royal Procision carpet extractor has two suction nozzles, not just one like other extractors.
		Royal Procision has a separate soap dispenser that automatically measures the correct amount of soap and mixes it with clean water, so there's no more guessing about the right amount to use.
		Because the soap is separate from the clean water, you can turn the soap dispenser off to rinse the carpet you've just shampooed.
	www.svcvacuum.com /royal/royal_steamer.asp (214 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (Not Logged in)
		I think your numbers for the Royal Navy are in error, but even if you credit them, it would mean that the Royal Navy would have to abandon virtually every corner of the globe if it were to dispatch this force to North America.
		Indeed, most of the Royal Navy's warships were unsuited for blockade duty along the North American coast, and would have been hard-pressed to combat American commerce raiders as well as meet their other operational requirements (such as maintaining the 20-ship West Africa Squadron on anti-slaving duty).
		The gold medals of the Royal Academy for the year were on Tuesday awarded as follows:-To Andrew Brown Donaldson, for the best historical painting; to George Slater, for the best historical group in sculpture; and to Thomas Henry Watson, for the best architectural design.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /Forums/ViewPost.aspx?ForumID=32&ID=5306 (18427 words)

	Dive BVI - The Wreck of the RMS Rhone Dive Site
		Below is an excerpt from "The Royal Mail Steamer Rhone" by George and Luana Marler
		A few months ago the second brother was drowned in St. Thomas harbour, he went down into the hold on the Liverpool Packet and by some means something went wrong and the poor fellow was drowned; the two remaining brothers felt his loss very much.
		Reproduced from "The Royal Mail Steamer Rhone" by George and Luana Marler
	www.divebvi.com /rms_rhone.htm (490 words)

	screenonline: Holyhead Mail Boat (1898)
		The Royal Mail steamer Munster completes its journey from Dublin to the island of Anglesey.
		Filmed at Holyhead, the largest town on the island of Anglesey, this actuality film observes the Munster mail boat pulling into its port, for which Holyhead is famous.
		The R.M.S. Munster seen here was in fact a replacement of the original mail boat of the same name and was one of four Royal Mail steamers in service between Ireland and Holyhead.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/1189445/index.html (100 words)

	Ron's Liverpool - Ships N
		The Royal Mail steamer was also used on the Liverpool to Quebec crossings [08].
		British steamer used on the Liverpool to Boston route.
		Royal Mail steamer used on the Liverpool to Quebec and Portland, Maine crossings [08].
	members.aceweb.com /ronsmith/liverpool/ships_n.htm (434 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Lady still steaming on
		The famous Lady of the Lake 19th century steamer is celebrating 125 years on Ullswater, in the Lake District.
		Christian Grammer, from Ullswater Steamers, told BBC Look North, that pleasure trips were not the Lady's only use.
		"In the very early days she was used as a Royal Mail steamer because there was not a suitable road down the lake shore.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/2389729.stm (315 words)

	The Long Journey
		She sailed from Southampton on board the Royal Mail Steamer Rawalpindi, sharing a 2-berth cabin for the voyage : 2nd Class Shelter Deck Cabin 485, starboard side aft on C Deck.
		This was a new ship, having been built in February 1935, and tho' her size (at 17,000 tons) seems modest by today's standards, she would have been typical of the type of ship used to move British "subjects" and their possessions quickly and economically around the Empire.
		The designation Royal Mail Steamer indicates that she was built to maintain a high speed in order to move mail as well as passengers and high-value items as quickly as possible, taking about a month to travel between Britain and the Far East via the Suez Canal.
	www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk /Baldwin/html/the_long_journey.htm (1270 words)

	New Brunswick Sources, 1849
		This measure is proposed to be followed by changing the route of the Mail steamers, which, instead of touching at Halifax, are to proceed at once to the United States.
		THE ENGLISH MAIL of the 24th March, by the Steamship Niagara arrived at Halifax on Thursday last at half past two o'clock, and the Express by horses to Granville, and thence by the Steamer Herald, reached Saint John at a quarter past eight yesterday morning.
		The Express Steamer from Granville, with the news for the United States Associated Press, arrived at Saint John between twelve and one o'clock on Thursday, and the Post Office Express with the Mail for this city, got in at seven yesterday morning.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/nb1849.html (11546 words)

	Loss of the Tweed, 1847
		We regret to state that accounts have arrived of the total wreck of the (Royal Mail) steamer Tweed, with the melancholy loss of seventy two lives; out of the entire crew and passengers, seventy-nine persons only having been saved.
		When daylight appeared, it was found that the Tweed had been drifted, by a strong current, thirty miles out of her course, to the north, and was lost on the Alacrane Reef, which is fifteen miles long by twelve miles broad.
		The Admiralty agent, chief officer, and a boat's crew, patched up the mail boat, and sailed for the Campeachy coast, from whence a Spanish brig immediately went to the scene of the wreck, and saved the remainder of the crew, who were still on the reef.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/passengerlists/tweed1847.html (1172 words)

	Ireland Newspaper Abstracts
		Good, was trawling on the fishing ground, outside the Kish Bank, at a place called the “Bruad,” she was run into by the steamer Pladda, bound from Cork to Glasgow with a general cargo, and sunk.
		The steamer struck her right aft, and she went down in deep water stern foremost.
		The crew were all saved by the yawl of the Hawk, pilot, that was close by, and put on board the steamer, when she immediately steered for Kingstown and landed two men, named Timothy Ratley and Patrick Kirwan, and a boy.
	www.irelandoldnews.com /Cork/1862/SEP.html (5942 words)

	The British Postal Museum & Archive - Induction & Training Resources
		Mail security has always been a priority – the Post Office Investigation Department was founded in 1793.
		This formal promise of mail delivery was made for the first time in 1897, in celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
		The Royal Mail Archive holds chilling telegrams from 14 and 15 April, informing the Post Office of the news from the North Atlantic.
	www.postalheritage.org.uk /rmg/induction (600 words)

	R.M.S.LEINSTER
		Mounted opposite the Carlisle Pier, it is a fitting reminder of the many local people who served and travelled aboard the mail steamers and, in particular, to the 500 or more who lost their lives while travelling on the Leinster.
		The violence and the unusually high death toll associated with this tragedy is still not comprehended and is in dark contrast with the many pleasant and tranquil Victorian depictions of the Mail Boats exhibited throughout Dun Laoghaire's hotels, pubs and banks.
		Indeed, it had been almost a miracle that these mail steamers had escaped until then.
	www.irishships.com /rmsleinster.htm (809 words)

	RMS TITANIC, INC
		The Titanic was conceived in 1907 and met with disaster in 1912, a brief existence but one fraught with all the drama of a Greek tragedy.
		The transatlantic transport of passengers, cargo, and mail was brisk and competitive.
		Certified seaworthy, Harland and Wolff handed her over to the White Star Line and the Royal Mail Triple-Screw Steamer Titanic departed for her place in history.
	www.rmstitanic.net /index.php4?page=167 (324 words)

	ASA September 1996 Newsletter
		Departing Boston on December 1, 1846, this wooden paddle steamer harbored in Halifax on December 3 before arriving in Liverpool on December 16.
		The Acadia's surgeon, Dr. Fraser, took a steamer and connecting coach to reach his mother in Dumfries, Scotland, by December 17.
		That same Royal Mail steamer, Acadia, brought Bostonian Jacob Bigelow's letter and his son's Boston Daily Advertiser story to Dr. Boott at Gower Street, London.
	www.asahq.org /Newsletters/1996/09_96/Feature4.htm (844 words)

	Empress of Ireland - An Essay
		The pride of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Atlantic fleet, the Great Ship could carry in excess of 1500 passengers as she was graced with eight decks that afforded first, second and even third class passengers some of the best accommodations for the day.
		As such, the Empress was outfitted with lifeboats for far more passengers than she carried and the CPR touted safety as an elegant feature of Empress steamer travel.
		Captain Henry George Kendall, as master of the steamer Montrose, achieved fame in 1910 with his actions that lead to the capture and arrest of Dr. H.
	www.northernatlanticdive.com /empress-essay.htm (3245 words)

	R.M.S. Leinster: The Sinking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Earlier that morning a number of Royal Navy ships at sea off Holyhead were forced to return to port due to the stormy conditions.
		A twelve-pound gun was mounted on the stern of each ship and members of the Royal Navy were put on board to man the gun.
		She was the first ever member of the Wrens (Women’s Royal Naval Service) to be killed on active service.
	www.rmsleinster.com /sinking/sinking.htm (939 words)

	GovMint.com - The Lost Treasure of the Douro
		A comfortable and elegant vessel, the Royal Mail Steamer Douro was one of the most popular vessels of its day.
		The impact was with such force that the Yrurac Bat rebounded and, with her engines still propelling her forward, struck the Douro a second time.
		When the plate was brought to the surface, it bore the Royal Mail's insignia of a seahorse, proving that the Douro had been found.
	www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/LostTreasureofDouro.aspx (903 words)

	BUT FOR A SINGLE WAVE: THE TRAGIC LOSS AND RECENT IDENTIFICATION OF THE STEAMSHIP PECONIC
		An iron-screw steamer with two decks, she was brigantine rigged and originally equipped with a 197-horsepower compound engine and one single-ended boiler; a donkey boiler was added to the vessel in 1894.
		Though heavily damaged, both steamers were able to limp to their respective docks without any loss of life.
		As the steamer was in the process of turning to port, an immense wave rolling in from the northeast struck the vessel.
	uwex.us /peconicarticle.htm (2186 words)

	Media Center \| NC Museum of Natural Sciences
		The letters RMS designated Titanic as a Royal Mail Steamer, meaning she was one of a number of ships responsible for transporting the mail across the North Atlantic.
		They returned from their brief festivities to find the mail storage room, located in the forward holds that the iceberg had breached, flooding with water.
		The Clerks worked furiously to save as much of the mail as possible, hauling dozens of registered mail bags to successive dry decks and sloshing through freezing water in the mailroom until it was submerged.
	www.naturalsciences.org /wnew/2003-11-20_titanic_ncties.htm (1170 words)

	cbs5.com - Queen Mary 2: An In-Depth History
		At the time of her construction in 2003, the QM2 was the longest, widest and tallest passenger ship ever built, and at 148,528 gross tons, was also the largest.
		She lost that last distinction to Royal Caribbean International's 154,407 gross ton Freedom of the Seas in April 2006, but QM2 remains the largest ocean liner (as opposed to cruise ship) ever built, and her height, length, and waterline breadth are unsurpassed by any other passenger ship.
		The dining rooms were placed further aft, though not directly at the stern, as done on some cruise ships like Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas, where vibration from the propellers at full speed would cause discomfort to dining passengers.
	cbs5.com /reference/local_story_035164025.html (2831 words)

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