Ships....
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Mauretania in 1907 off the Tyne....
Mauretania on her Tyneside builder's ways prior to launch in 1906....
Mauretania after being launched, 20 September 1906....
Mauretania during a speed trial off St Abbs Head, Scotland, 18 September 1907. The maximum speed attained was
25.73 kn (47.65 km/h)....
Mauretania passing Castle Wemyss and the Station Clock Tower on the nautical measured mile, Skelmorlie, late 1907....
Wemyss Castle....
Source:Wemyss Castle | The Castles of Scotland, Coventry | Goblinshead
The ship's Verandah Café, located on the boat deck, c. 1927....
Mauretania at Curaçao, c. 1925....
HMT Mauretania with her second geometric dazzle camouflage scheme designed by Norman Wilkinson....
HMHS Mauretania, ca. 1915....
Mauretania at full speed on the measured mile, 1922....
Mauretania at Southampton in 1933....
The two former rivals, Olympic (left) and Mauretania (right) moored along the "new" Western Docks in Southampton in
1935, before Mauretania′s final voyage to the breaker's yard in Rosyth, Fife....
Mauretania, with her masts cut down to pass under the Forth Bridge, departing Southampton for her final voyage to
Rosyth, Fife, on 2 July 1935. Olympic can be seen in the background....
Mauretania being scrapped in Rosyth, Fife, in 1935....
Source: RMS Mauretania (1906) - Wikipedia
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Aquitania on the stocks, 1913....
Aquitania shortly before her launch....
Aquitania shortly after launch....
RMS Aquitania on her maiden voyage in New York Harbor, 5 June 1914....
View of the First Class Dining Saloon....
The Grand Staircase of RMS Aquitania....
RMS Aquitania Grand Entrance...
Passenger elevators in the Grand Entrance on the 'Aquitania'....
Forward end of the First Class Lounge on RMS Aquitania....
Aquitania as a hospital ship in World War I....
Aquitania as a troopship in dazzle paint scheme, photographed at Halifax in 1918....
RMS Aquitania seen with one of her running mates, RMS Mauretania (right in front), and the White Star Liner RMS Olympic
(far left) at Southampton, early 1920s....
Aquitania after her 1920 refit. This photograph was taken in the 1930s....
Aquitania during World War Two....
Aquitania painted grey during World War II....
Aquitania at Boston Naval Shipyard, September 1942....
Aquitania (left) and SS Île de France during Operation Pamphlet....
1947: Aquitania in her final years, sporting her wartime grey with uniquely painted Cunard funnels....
Aquitania being scrapped in Faslane, Scotland in 1950....
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Nice shots!
