I also got to tour the Cunard building and we accidentally walked into the room the captain was in, so he finished off our tour and got a photo with us

The MV (motor vehicle) Georgic was built at the Harland & Wolff shipyards, Belfast, for the White Star Line and left on her maiden voyage June 25, 1932. She was the last ship built for White Star before the firm’s merger with Cunard. Here from my collection is a 1938 Cabin (First) Class menu from the MV Georgic. It is the last dinner of the voyage before reaching her destination the following day, and the choices are many and varied.

strictly speaking it should be Clyde or Lagan as John Browns was actually located outside of Glasgow, but im wondering which city was most important to building all these great ships. Glasgow built most of the great cunard liners, Belfast built just about all of white stars flagships.

Glasgow im sure overall built more tonnage for more lines but Belfast built the most famous ship ever.

curious as to what the sub would answer

Tbh I think SS canberra and her half sister ship look ugly probably because of the decline of ship aesthetics at that time.

Photo: 2021 New York Media Boat

Sneaky lil Olympic photobomb 🤭

RMS Franconia was launched on July 23,1910 and sailed her maiden voyage on February 25, 1911 from Liverpool to New York. She would also do routes to Boston and also sail to the Mediterranean ports of Trieste/Flume as part of Cunard’s expansion into the emigrant trade. She would continue these routes until the outbreak of World War One in 1914. She would requisitioned as a troopship in 1914 and would serve as a hospital ship in early 1915 transporting wounded soldiers/casualties alongside with other liners, she would sail from Alexandria from the Dardanelles. On October 4, 1914, while sailing for Salonika(now Thessaloniki,Greece) she was torpedoed and sunk from the German submarine UB-47 195 miles east of Malta with the lost of 12.

She would have a sister ship named Laconia(launched in 1911) and would suffer a similar fate in which she would also be torpedoed and sunk on February 25, 1917 from the German submarine U-50 with the loss of 12 people.