Wat (wie) is RMS Mauretania - definitie
RMS Mauretania (1906)
![''Mauretania'' at [[Curaçao]], {{circa}} 1925](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De Mauretania van de Cunard Line, het snelste Transatlantische passagiersschip, in de Caracas-baai, Curaçao, met op de achtergrond de olieopslagtanks van de Curaçaosche Petroleum Industrie Maatschappi, KITLV 42542.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' at [[Curaçao]], {{circa}} 1925")
![''Mauretania'' passing [[Castle Wemyss]] and the Station Clock Tower on the [[nautical measured mile]], [[Skelmorlie]], late 1907](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania - Full speed ahead (5609324995).jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' passing [[Castle Wemyss]] and the Station Clock Tower on the [[nautical measured mile]], [[Skelmorlie]], late 1907")
![''Mauretania'' on her [[Tyneside]] builder's ways prior to launch in 1906](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania Construction.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' on her [[Tyneside]] builder's ways prior to launch in 1906")
![''Mauretania'' photographed in 1928 via the [[Autochrome Lumiere]] process.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania in drydock 1928 autochrome process starboard side.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' photographed in 1928 via the [[Autochrome Lumiere]] process.")
![''Mauretania'' departing [[Southampton]] for her final voyage to [[Rosyth]], Scotland, on 2 July 1935. ''Olympic'' can be seen in the background. The ship's masts have been cut down to pass under the [[Forth Bridge]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania leaves Southampton for Rosyth.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' departing [[Southampton]] for her final voyage to [[Rosyth]], Scotland, on 2 July 1935. ''Olympic'' can be seen in the background. The ship's masts have been cut down to pass under the [[Forth Bridge]].")
![Letter "E" from ''Mauretania'', salvaged when the ship was broken up for scrap, located at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania letter "E".jpg?width=200 "Letter \"E\" from ''Mauretania'', salvaged when the ship was broken up for scrap, located at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle")
![''Mauretania'' being scrapped in [[Rosyth]], Scotland, in 1935](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania scrap Rosyth.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' being scrapped in [[Rosyth]], Scotland, in 1935")
![Norman Wilkinson]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mauretania with dazzle camouflage bringing troops home from Europe.jpg?width=200 "Norman Wilkinson]]")
![Charles Parsons]] ''Turbinia'' of 1897, recreating the meeting of the two great vessels (then first and the largest turbine vessels in the world) on 22 October 1907 – ''Mauretania''{{'}}s departure from the Tyne for her delivery trip to Liverpool and formal trials.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Model of RMS Mauretania.jpg?width=200 "Charles Parsons]] ''Turbinia'' of 1897, recreating the meeting of the two great vessels (then first and the largest turbine vessels in the world) on 22 October 1907 – ''Mauretania''{{'}}s departure from the Tyne for her delivery trip to Liverpool and formal trials.")
![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]], Scotland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olympic and Mauretania.jpg?width=200 "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]], Scotland")
![Arundel Castle}} in the [[Bay of Funchal]], [[Madeira]], {{circa}} 1934](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Penha de França, Cais da Pontinha e baía do Funchal, c. 1935.jpg?width=200 "Arundel Castle}} in the [[Bay of Funchal]], [[Madeira]], {{circa}} 1934")
![''Mauretania'' ship's bell, [[Remembrance Day]] 2012](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RMS Mauretania Ship's Bell.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' ship's bell, [[Remembrance Day]] 2012")
.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' after being launched, 20 September 1906")
BRITISH OCEAN LINER FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
HMHS Mauretania; SS 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 launch of in 1910.
RMS Mauretania
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
RMS Mauritania
Two ocean liners of the Cunard Line have been named RMS Mauretania, after the ancient territory of Mauretania:
RMS Mauretania (1938)
![Cunard]] in 1950](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cunard RMS Mauretania.jpg?width=200 "Cunard]] in 1950")
 at Southampton 1958.jpg?width=200 "''Mauretania'' moored at Southampton in August 1958")
![Scale model of ''Mauretania'' created by [[Cammell Laird]], currently at the [[Williamson Art Gallery and Museum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Model of RMS Mauretania (1938), Williamson Art Gallery.jpg?width=200 "Scale model of ''Mauretania'' created by [[Cammell Laird]], currently at the [[Williamson Art Gallery and Museum]]")
![German prisoners of war]] on board, 16 September 1942](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RMS Mauretania docks at Newport News, Virginia (USA), on 16 September 1942 (138925880).jpg?width=200 "German prisoners of war]] on board, 16 September 1942")
![Ship's bell at the [[Williamson Art Gallery and Museum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RMS Mauretania ship's bell, Williamson Art Gallery.jpg?width=200 "Ship's bell at the [[Williamson Art Gallery and Museum]]")
BRITISH OCEAN LINER IN SERVICE 1938-1965
IMO 5522977
The RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner that was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England, and was completed in May 1939. She was one of the first ships built for the newly formed Cunard-White Star company following the merger in April 1934 of the Cunard and White Star Line.
