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Description: | This is one of the letters which spelled 'MAURETANIA' on the ship. The 'Mauretania' was built at Wallsend on the Tyne. The shipyards of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson had combined their resources to bid for this contract. When she was built the 'Mauretania' was the largest ship in the world. She was also one of the fastest, achieving an average speed of 22 knots. In 1907 she won the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from New York to Liverpool. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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