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RMS Tayleur was a full-rigged iron clipper ship chartered by the White Star Line. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground off Lambay Island and sank, on her maiden voyage, in 1854.
Building[edit] RMS Strathnaver' s port lifeboats in their davits in 1934. The Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness built all five "Strath"-class liners. [1] Strathnaver was launched on 5 February 1931, [2] completed in September 1931 [1] and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October. [2]
RMS Empress of Japan was an ocean liner built in 1929–1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This ship was the second of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Japan [1] – regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between the west coast of Canada and the ...
Royal Mail steamship routes. Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer ), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. The designation dates back to 1840. [1] Any vessel designated as "RMS" has the right both to fly the pennant of the ...
St Helena. (1989) RMS St Helena is a cargo liner (carrying cargo and passengers) that served the British overseas territory of Saint Helena. She sailed between Cape Town and Saint Helena with regular shuttles continuing to Ascension Island. Some voyages also served Walvis Bay en route to and from, or occasionally instead of, Cape Town.
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time.
RMS Arundel Castle was a British ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship which entered service in 1921 for the Union-Castle Line. A previous vessel of the same name was built in 1864 by Donald Currie & Co. (a predecessor to Union-Castle) and sold in 1883, whereupon it was renamed Chittagong . [2]
RMS. Baltic. (1903) RMS Baltic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line that sailed between 1904 and 1932. At 23,876 gross register tonnage, she was the world's largest ship until May 1906. She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross register tons, dubbed The Big Four, the other three being RMS Celtic, RMS Cedric ...