RMS Mauretania
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1907 ocean liner converted to armed merchant cruiser
Key facts
- Name
- RMS Mauretania
- Namesake
- Mauretania
- Owner
- 1906–1934: Cunard Line 1934–1935: Cunard White Star Line
- Operator
- Cunard Line
- Port of registry
- Liverpool
- Route
- 1907–1919 Liverpool – Queenstown – New York 1919–1934 Southampton – Cherbourg – New York
- Builder
- Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson , Northumberland , England
- Laid down
- 18 August 1904
- Launched
- 20 September 1906
- Christened
- 20 September 1906, by the Duchess of Roxburghe
- Acquired
- 11 November 1907
- Maiden voyage
- 16 November 1907
- In service
- 1907–1934
- Out of service
- September 1934
- Identification
- UK Official Number 124097 Code letters "HLTQ" Marconi Radio Call Letters "MGA"
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1935 at Rosyth , Scotland
- Type
- Ocean liner
- Tonnage
- 31,938 GRT , 12,797 NRT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hospital ship
- Named after
- Mauretania
- Owned by
- Cunard Line
- Operator
- Cunard Line
- Manufacturer
- Swan Hunter
- Designed by
- Leonard Peskett
- Image
- Mauretania Under Easy Steam off the Tyne.jpg
- Length
- 240.8
- Speed
- 26
- Significant event
- maiden voyage
Show 10 more facts
- native label
- Mauretania
- yard number
- 735
- draft
- 10
- Commons category
- Mauretania (ship, 1906)
- port of registry
- Liverpool
- beam
- 26.8
- shipping port
- Liverpool
- different from
- Mauretania
- location of creation
- Swan Hunter
- nickname
- Maury
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Encyclopedic overview
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend on the River Tyne, England, launched in 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. Mauretania captured the eastbound Blue Riband speed record on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound record during her 1909 season and then held both speed records for 20 years.
The liner was requisitioned by the British government for military service during World War I as a hospital ship and troopship, and was later returned to Cunard in 1919. Mauretania remained in service until September 1934, when Cunard-White Star retired her and was scrapped in 1935 at Rosyth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RMS Mauretania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.