"1906. British competition was also fierce, Cunards ""Lusitania"" launched in 1906 followed by her sister ""Mauretania"" were an instant success and by 1910, the new ""Olympic class ocean liners"" of White Star were nearing completion. Imperator-class ocean liner The ""Imperator"" class ocean liners were a series of three ocean liners designed for the Hamburg America Line, commonly known as ""HAPAG"". These three ships were commissioned by the chairman of HAPAG Albert Ballin. Namely the ""Imperator"" (1912), the ""Vaterland"" (1913) and the largest, the ""Bismarck"" (1914). These liners were over 50,000 tons, sported three funnels and had a length ranging from"
"RMS Mauretania (1906) RMS ""Mauretania"" was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the completion of in 1911. ""Mauretania"" became a favourite among her passengers. She captured the Eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the Westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season. She held both speed records for 20 years. The ship's name was taken from the ancient Roman province"
"your command! You will find the ""Mauretania"" at the quay, Till her captain turns the lever 'neath his hand, And the monstrous nine-decked city goes to sea. The historical novel ""Maiden Voyage"" by British writer Roger Harvey set in Newcastle in the 1900s gives an accurate account of the building of ""Mauretania"" and features characters involved with her turbine engines. The climax of two love stories and a thriller comes as the ship approaches New York on her maiden voyage. RMS Mauretania (1906) RMS ""Mauretania"" was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan"
"of Mauretania on the northwest African coast, not the modern Mauritania to the south. Similar nomenclature was also employed by ""Mauretania""s running mate , which was named after the Roman province directly north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar in Portugal. ""Mauretania"" remained in service until 1934 when Cunard White Star retired her; scrapping commenced in 1935. In 1897 the German liner became the largest and fastest ship in the world. With a speed of , she captured the Blue Riband from Cunard Line's and . Germany came to dominate the Atlantic, and by 1906 they had five four-funnel"
"two liners of unmatched size and speed, under the condition that they be available for conversion into armed cruisers when needed by the navy. The result of this partnership was the completion in 1907 of two sister ships: and RMS ""Mauretania"", both of which won the Blue Riband during their respective maiden voyages. The latter retained this distinction for twenty years. Their great speed was achieved by the use of turbines instead of conventional expansion machines. In response to the competition from Cunard Line, White Star Line ordered the Olympic-class liners at the end of 1907. The first of these"
"launched by the Duchess of Roxburghe. At the time of her launch, she was the largest moving structure ever built, and slightly larger in gross tonnage than ""Lusitania"". The main visual differences between ""Mauretania"" and ""Lusitania"" were that ""Mauretania"" was five feet longer and had different vents. ""Mauretania"" also had two extra stages of turbine blades in her forward turbines, making her slightly faster than ""Lusitania"". ""Mauretania"" and ""Lusitania"" were the only ships with direct-drive steam turbines to hold the Blue Riband; in later ships, reduction-geared turbines were mainly used. ""Mauretania""s usage of the steam turbine was the largest application"
"RMS Mauretania (1938) RMS ""Mauretania"" was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England, and was completed in May 1939. The second ""Mauretania"" was the first ship built for the newly formed Cunard White Star company following the merger in April 1934 of the Cunard and White Star Line. On the withdrawal of the first in 1934, to prevent a rival company using the name and to keep it available for the new liner, arrangements were made for the Red Funnel paddle steamer ""Queen"" to be renamed ""Mauretania"" in the interim. The new liner had"
"next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage. However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the White Star Line and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised as the Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, to raise capital. In 1902 White Star joined the American-owned International Mercantile Marine Co. and the British Government provided Cunard with substantial loans and a subsidy to build two superliners needed to retain its competitive position. ""Mauretania"" held the Blue Riband from 1909 to 1929. The sinking of her running mate ""Lusitania"" in 1915"
"RMS Lusitania RMS ""Lusitania"" was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship . The Cunard Line launched ""Lusitania"" in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade. She sank on her"
"New York on February 20, 1902, was a key step in the formation of what was to become the IMM, but did not fully address long-standing competitive friction between and amongst the major German and British transatlantic shipping companies. Responses in the United Kingdom helped intensify these rivalries. Cunard Line, one of the British shipping companies with independent significance, received grants from the British government for the construction of two great ocean liners, the ""Lusitania"" and the ""Mauretania"", which were placed into service in late 1907. The competitive response from the IMM group came in 1908 when Harland & Wolff"
"lay in the rivalry between the White Star Line and Cunard Line, Britain's two leading shipping companies. The White Star Line's , and the upcoming were larger than the latest Cunard ships, ""Mauretania"" and ""Lusitania"", by 15,000 gross tons. The Cunard duo were significantly faster than the White Star ships, while White Star's ships were seen as more luxurious. Cunard needed another liner for its weekly transatlantic express service, and elected to copy the White Star Line's ""Olympic""-class model with a larger, slower, but more luxurious ship. The plan for the building of that liner began in 1910. Several draft"
"Sinking of the RMS Lusitania. RMS Lusitania RMS ""Lusitania"" was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917. The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister ship . The Cunard Line launched ""Lusitania"" in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic"
"a tonnage of 35,739 gross, an overall length of and a beam of and had a exterior design similar to . The vessel was powered by two sets of Parsons single reduction-geared steam turbines giving and driving twin propellers. Her service speed was with a maximum speed of . The second ""Mauretania"" was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead and was the largest ship built in England at that time. She was also the first new ship delivered to the combined Cunard White Star Line. ""Mauretania"" was laid down on 24 May 1937 as Yard Number 1029. This new medium"
"her sister ship ""Columbia"" in 1887, soon after joining the Hamburg America Line as head of passenger service. ""Augusta Victoria"", the first to be put in service, was originally to have been called ""Normannia"" but was renamed for the Empress after Wilhelm II became Emperor. In the 1890s the line added the larger ""Normannia"" and to the series. ""Augusta Victoria"" was the first continental European liner with twin screws, which made her both faster and more reliable. (The two previous twin-screw liners were the British-built ""City of New York"" and ""City of Paris"" of the Inman Line.) In May 1889,"
"of all grades by Cunard White Star Line. ""Mauretania"" sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 17 June 1939 under the command of Captain A T Brown (who had delivered the previous Mauretania to the shipbreakers), after remaining in New York for a week she returned to Southampton via Cherbourg on Friday, 30 June 1939. Like , 25 years before, ""Mauretania"" was to experience only the briefest period of commercial operation before the outbreak of hostilities halted this work for over six years. Returning from the next voyage, ""Mauretania"" called at Southampton, Le Havre and finally"
"SS Minnehaha SS ""Minnehaha"" was a 13,443-ton ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff and launched on 31 March 1900. Operated by the American-owned Atlantic Transport Line, she was the sister ship of , , and ""Minnewaska"". In her first year of operations, the ""Minnehaha"" collided with and sank a tug in New York Harbor on 18 September 1900. The tug suffered two fatalities. On 18 April 1910, the liner grounded on rocks on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly while en route from New York City to Tilbury, near London; she remained stranded until 13 May when two tugs"
"superliners in service, four of them owned by North German Lloyd and part of the so-called """". At around the same time the American financier J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. was attempting to monopolise the shipping trade, and had already acquired Britain's other major transatlantic line, White Star. In the face of these threats the Cunard Line was determined to regain the prestige of dominance in ocean travel not only for the company, but also for the United Kingdom. By 1902, Cunard Line and the British government reached an agreement to build two superliners, ""Lusitania"" and ""Mauretania"", with"
"RMS Lucania RMS ""Lucania"" was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 2 February 1893. Identical in dimensions and specifications to her running mate , RMS ""Lucania"" was the joint largest passenger liner afloat when she entered service in 1893. On her second voyage, she won the prestigious Blue Riband from the other Cunarder to become the fastest passenger liner afloat, a title she kept until 1898. ""Lucania"" and ""Campania"" were partly financed by the Admiralty. The deal was that Cunard"
"her in February 1926. Her sister ship ""Alcantara"" was launched on 23 September 1926 and completed in February 1927. The latter was named after Royal Mail Lines' previous ""Alcantara"", which was an armed merchant cruiser in the First World War and had been lost when she and the German armed merchant cruiser sank each other in 1916. Each of the two new ships was powered by a pair of eight-cylinder four-stroke double-acting diesel engines built by Harland and Wolff to a Burmeister & Wain design. The engines gave each ship 10,000 ihp or 7,500 bhp, and at the time they"
"After the demonstration by British engineer Charles Parsons of his steam turbine-driven yacht, ""Turbinia"", in 1897, the use of steam turbines for propulsion quickly spread. The Cunard RMS ""Mauretania"", built in 1906 was one of the first ocean liners to use the steam turbine (with a late design change shortly before her keel was laid down) and was soon followed by all subsequent liners. Most capital ships of the major navies were propelled by steam turbines burning bunker fuel in both World Wars. Large naval vessels and submarines continue to be operated with steam turbines, using nuclear reactors to boil"
"the east of the rock. The sinking of ""Lusitania"" spurred the local authorities to construct a new lighthouse on the Cape Point. SS Lusitania SS ""Lusitania"" was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people"
"she in turn was shortly replaced by . SS ""Homeric"" was reassigned to intra-Caribbean cruises. In 1973, a major fire destroyed much of her galley and restaurant and she was scrapped in Taiwan next to Holland America Line SS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1974. During the ship breaking process, her sister ship, the Chandris Lines' ""Ellinis"" (ex-""Lurline""), suffered major engine damage on a cruise to Japan; Chandris was able to purchase one of the ""Mariposa"" engines from the ship breakers. SS Mariposa SS ""Mariposa was a luxury ocean liner launched in 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines ""White"
"""Mafalda"" was launched in 1908 with much of her superstructure uninstalled in order to prevent the same disaster. The launch was successful and ""Mafalda"" was fully completed in March 1909. She became the flagship of the NGI and also served as an officers billet during World War I. In 1927 ""Mafalda"" sank in a separate disaster. SS Principessa Jolanda (1907) The SS Principessa Jolanda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built by Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) shipping company. Named after Princess Iolanda Margherita di Savoia, the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III,"
"and ""Mauretania’s"" 1909 record of stood for 20 years. However, these ships paid a price for speed and lacked many of the amenities found in the new White Star and Hamburg American luxury liners. Both Cunard rivals ordered a trio of even bigger luxury liners, the White Star ""Olympic""-class capable of and Hapag ""Imperator""-class capable of . Even Cunard chose this approach when it ordered its third superliner, the ""Aquitania"". There is a persistent rumor that was attempting to win the Blue Riband and that such effort resulted in excessive speed and collision with the iceberg. Such a rumor is"
"the ""Celtic"". However, NDL completed building a fleet of four additional express liners modelled on ""Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse"". After 1902, only the Cunard Line and the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) were independent of the IMM combine. British prestige was at stake, and the Government provided Cunard with an annual subsidy of £150,000 plus a low interest loan of £2.5 million to pay for the construction of the two superliners, ""Lusitania"" and ""Mauretania"" under the condition that they be available for conversion to armed cruisers when needed by the navy. Starting in 1907, both ships won the Blue Riband"
"off Mauritius in 1938. The 706-ton ""Ingerid"" was taken into service in 1901 and the 600-ton ""Karatara"" in 1913. The 1019-ton ""Outeniqua"" joined the fleet in 1915, the 139-ton ""Clara"" converted from a sand barge and suction dredger and the 216-ton ""Nautilus"" in 1917. The ""Outeniqua"" was the company's flagship, could accommodate fifty passengers and remained in service until 1945. In 1916 the ""Thesen Line"" became the ""Thesen's Steamship Company"", but the coastal shipping trade was languishing. Vessels which had been conscripted during World War I were free to ply commercial routes after the War, leading to keen competition. Improvements"
"SS Lusitania SS ""Lusitania"" was a Portuguese twin-screw ocean liner of 5,557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empresa Nacional de Navegação, of Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on Bellows Rock off Cape Point, South Africa at 24h00 on 18 April 1911 in fog while en route from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique, with 25 first-class, 57 second-class and 121 third-class passengers, and 475 African labourers. Out of the 774 people on board, eight died when a life boat capsized. On 20 April the ship slipped off the rock into of water to"
"was unknown at the time, but it was not unknown for Roman numerals to denote ships in service with the same name. Two non Cunard ships were named ""Queen Mary II"", a Clyde steamer, and ""Mauretania II"", a Southampton steamer of Red Funnel, since the Cunard ships already had the names without Roman numerals. As was Cunard practice at the time, the name of the liner was not to be publicly revealed until the launch. Dignitaries were invited to the ""Launch of Cunard Liner No. 736"", as no name had yet been painted on the bow. The Queen launched the"
"seat luxurious ladies tea room that opened with the store in 1969. The room was removed prior to the demolition and reconstruction of the mall in 2001 to make room for additional shopping as the times changed. The present location of these furnishings is unknown. The Sea My Steed, by Captain Donald Sorrell. Robert Hale Ltd 1960. RMS Mauretania (1938) RMS ""Mauretania"" was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England, and was completed in May 1939. The second ""Mauretania"" was the first ship built for the newly formed Cunard White Star company following the"
"were part of a """". In response to this, the Cunard Line of the UK ordered two vessels whose speed earned them the nickname ""greyhounds of the seas:"" and . ""Mauretania"" kept the Blue Riband for more than twenty years, from 1909 to 1929. The White Star Line knew that their Big Four, a quartet of ships built for size and luxury were no match for the Cunard's new liners in terms of speed. In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay, president of White Star and William J. Pirrie, director of the shipyard Harland & Wolff decided to build three vessels. And"
"RMS Campania RMS ""Campania"" was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 8 September 1892. Identical in dimensions and specifications to her sister ship , ""Campania"" was the largest and fastest passenger liner afloat when she entered service in 1893. She crossed the Atlantic in less than six days, and on her second voyage in 1893, she won the prestigious Blue Riband, previously held by the Inman Liner . The following year, ""Lucania"" won the Blue Riband and kept the title"
"reach the munitions and caused minimal damage to the ship itself. On 7 September 1917, ""Minnehaha"" sank within four minutes with 43 fatalities, after being torpedoed by German U-boat ""U-48"", off the Fastnet. Her sister ships ""Minneapolis"" and ""Minnetonka"" were sunk while in use as troop transports during World War I. SS Minnehaha SS ""Minnehaha"" was a 13,443-ton ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff and launched on 31 March 1900. Operated by the American-owned Atlantic Transport Line, she was the sister ship of , , and ""Minnewaska"". In her first year of operations, the ""Minnehaha"" collided with and sank"
"RMS Saxonia (1899) The first RMS ""Saxonia"" was a passenger ship of the British Cunard Line. Between 1900 and 1925, ""Saxonia"" operated on North Atlantic and Mediterranean passenger routes, and she saw military service during World War I (1914–1918). ""Saxonia""s sister ships were ""Ivernia"" and ""Carpathia"". Around 1900, the Cunard Line faced tight competition from the British White Star Line and the German lines Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg America (HAPAG). Cunards largest liners, as of 1898 and , had a reputation for size and speed, both being of 12,950 gross register tons (grt) and having held the Blue Riband for"