AQUITANIA
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RMS AQUITANIA, like many other of the great Cunard liners built on the Clyde, saw her fair share of war-time duties.
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Built at the John Brown's Shipyard at Clydebank, she was designed to support the ill-fated Lusitania and sister ship Mauritania on the trans-Atlantic passenger service.
Just a few weeks before the outbreak of the First World War she made her maiden voyage to New York. After a further two voyages, she was seconded to military service as an auxiliary cruiser.
However, she was too big for this role and was converted to a troop ship in 1915, serving at Gallipoli and was later a hospital ship during that conflict.
At the end of the Great War she was refitted to burn oil rather than coal, and resumed her New York passenger service in 1919.
From 1932 Aquitania also served as a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, she became a troop-ship once more, operating in the Atlantic and Pacific.
In 1948, under Cunard, she transported emigrants to Canada.
Two years later, having achieved the longest service record of any Cunarder in the 20th Century, she was taken out of service and was scrapped at Faslane.
