After the 1906 launches of the liners RMC Lusitania and the RMS Mauretania by White Star's ... the next wave of luxury sea travel. Three giant ships were his vision – RMS Olympic, HMHS Britannic ...

The sinking was a major factor that brought the United States in to the war in 1917It was one of four that drove RMS Lusitania across the Atlantic. Lusitania and her sister-ship Mauretania were ...

About two years later, as a newly-trained RAF serviceman, he was on board the converted ocean liner, the RMS Mauretania II, sailing out from the north-west coast of England with thousands of other ...