RMS Mauretania (1906)

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RMS Mauretania (1906) was a famous British ocean liner renowned for holding the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing for over two decades and symbolizing early 20th-century luxury sea travel.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ocean liner
passenger ship
steamship
awarded Royal Mail Ship prefix
beam 26.8 m
88 ft
BlueRibandHeldFrom 1909
BlueRibandHeldUntil 1929
builder Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
category Blue Riband holders
Ships built on the River Tyne
class Cunard express liner
completionDate 1907-10-24
countryOfRegistry United Kingdom
crewComplement over 800 crew
deckCount multiple passenger decks
designFeature four funnels
turbine propulsion designed by Charles Parsons
enteredService 1907
fate scrapped at Rosyth
flag Red Ensign
linked to: British Red Ensign
grossTonnage about 31,938 GRT
heldTitle Blue Riband
homePort Liverpool
hullMaterial steel
launchDate 1906-09-20
lengthOverall 240 m
790 ft
maidenVoyage 1907-11-16
maximumSpeed about 26 knots
namedAfter Mauretania (Roman province)
linked to: Roman Mauretania
notableFor fastest transatlantic crossings
luxurious early 20th-century ocean travel
operator Cunard Line
owner Cunard Line
passengerCapacity over 2,000 passengers
portOfRegistry Liverpool
propulsion quadruple-screw
steam turbines
recordType eastbound transatlantic speed record
westbound transatlantic speed record
route Liverpool–New York
Southampton–New York
scrapped 1935
serviceDuring World War I
shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
sisterShip RMS Lusitania
usedAs hospital ship
troopship
withdrawnFromService 1934

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Cunard Line notableShip RMS Mauretania (1906)
Jack Phillips shipServedOn RMS Mauretania
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS Aquitania sisterShipOf RMS Mauretania
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS Mauretania (1938) namedAfter RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS Mauretania (1938) successorTo RMS Mauretania (1906)
Lusitania-class ocean liners includesShip RMS Mauretania
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)
Lusitania-class ocean liners notableShip RMS Mauretania
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)
Blue Riband notableHolder RMS Mauretania
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)
Swan Hunter notableWork RMS Mauretania (1906 ocean liner)
linked to: RMS Mauretania (1906)