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The RMS Scythia heading into port
History
United Kingdom
Name
RMS Scythia
Owner
1920–34: Cunard Line
1934–49: Cunard-White Star Line
1949–58: Cunard Line
Port of registry
United Kingdom
Route
New York – Mediterranean
London – Quebec
Liverpool – Cobh – Halifax – New York
Ordered
1919
Builder
Vickers Ltd, Barrow
Yard number
493[1]
Launched
23 March 1920
Completed
December 1920
Maiden voyage
20 August 1921
Fate
Scrapped on 23 January 1958
Notes
Longest-serving passenger liner of the 20th century.
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
19,761 GRT
11,927 NRT
Length
600.7 ft (183.1 m)
Beam
73.8 ft (22.5 m)
Draught
32 ft 8 in (10.0 m)
Depth
40.7 ft (12.4 m)
Installed power
2,528 NHP
Propulsion
steam turbines,
double-reduction gears,
twin propellers
Speed
16 kn (30 km/h)
Capacity
Passenger berths:
350 1st class
350 2nd class
1,500 3rd class
RMS Scythia was a Cunard ocean liner. She sailed on her maiden voyage in 1921, and became a troop and supply ship during the Second World War. Scythia was the longest serving Cunard liner until 4 September 2005, when her record was surpassed by Queen Elizabeth 2.[2]
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Sydney, Nova Scotia, QE2 became the longest serving Cunarder, surpassing RMSScythia's record. At the end of her 2005 world cruise, some pieces of her artwork...
shared the Canada route with the older Cunard ships RMS Franconia (1922), RMS Ascania (1923) and RMSScythia. As the third and fourth Saxonia class ships entered...
in Vilnius, Lithuania. Fisher, as Kayotis, then travelled aboard the RMSScythia from Le Havre, France, to North America, disembarking at Quebec. Still...
Pacific Line Montreal off Morecambe Bay. Collides with Cunard Line's RMSScythia in Queenstown in 1923, and collides with Van in Boston in 1926. Scrapped...
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serving in RMS Samaria, RMSScythia, RMS Britannic, RMS Georgic and RMS Queen Elizabeth. In February 1954 he was appointed staff captain RMS Caronia, until...
up in India. She moved to Britain in July 1946 aboard the Cunard ship RMSScythia from Bombay, just before the end of British rule, and found a clerical...
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(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...
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service. Scotia herself remained as Cunard's largest unit until Bothnia and Scythia were completed in 1874. The conversion of the French Line's Ville Du Havre...
usual thoroughness. He left Liverpool for New York, arriving on the RMSScythia on 4 October 1882. Knowing virtually no-one in the United States, but...
and SS Scythia. Many NOFU members and their families returned to Newfoundland following the end of the war and many made the journey on the RMS Aquitania...
on the transatlantic service as chief officer in Cunard's Caronia and Scythia before being recalled for additional naval training. From May 1924 to May...
However, rival companies quickly caught up: Cunard placed Botnia and Scythia into service, while the Inman Line ordered City of Brussels and Montana...
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