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Cruise ship

RMS Mauretania

IMO 5522977United KingdomBuilt 1939

Operated by Cunard Line

Photo: Sandy Hook · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About RMS Mauretania

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RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner that operated from 1939 to 1965. The ship 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. On the withdrawal of the first Mauretania in 1935, to prevent a rival company using the name and to keep it available for the new liner, arrangements were made for the Red Funnel paddle steamer Queen to be renamed Mauretania in the interim.
The new liner was assessed at 35,739 gross register tons, with an overall length of 772 feet (235 m) and a beam of 89 feet (27 m) and had an exterior design similar to Queen Elizabeth. The vessel was powered by two sets of Parsons single reduction-geared steam turbines giving 42,000 shaft horsepower (31,000 kW) and driving twin propellers. Her service speed was 23 knots (43 km/h) with a maximum speed of 26 knots (48 km/h).

Quoted from RMS Mauretania (1938) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

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Identification

In context

How RMS Mauretania compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag.

RMS Mauretania was built in 1939, making it 87 years old. It is one of 85 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,510 GT. Across the whole of the 1930s the registry holds 552 vessels, median 1,138 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 51 vessels to Cammell Laird, with a median tonnage of 4,791 GT, delivered between 1913 and 2019. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 232.0 m overall, RMS Mauretania is 33.9 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 26.7 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5522977 this registry holds 3 other vessels, whose median build year is 1939 and which range from 1924 to 1950. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1939.

Its IMO number, 5522977, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 5×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 7×2 = 124 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does not, so this number as recorded does not validate; it is shown here as held rather than silently corrected.