Royal Mail Ship

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RMS "Crown" as displayed by the Cunard liner Template:RMS

Royal Mail steamship routes

Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. The designation dates back to 1840.<ref>The first citation in The Times is from 18 August 1840.</ref> Any vessel designated as "RMS" has the right both to fly the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing and to include the Royal Mail "crown" insignia with any identifying device and/or design for the ship.<ref name="ReferenceA">Royal Mails employees Courier newspaper page 20 August 2007</ref><ref>QM2 Template:Webarchive</ref><ref name="FOTW">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It was used by many shipping lines, but is often associated in particular with the White Star Line, Cunard,<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>Maxtone-Graham, John et al. (2004). Queen Mary 2, p. 184.</ref> Royal Mail Lines, Union-Castle Line, Canadian Pacific Line, Orient Line and the P&OSNC, which held a number of high-profile mail contracts, and traditionally prefixed the names of many of their ships with the initials "RMS".

While some lines in the past, particularly the Royal Mail Lines, called all their ships "RMS", technically a ship would use the prefix only while contracted to carry mail, and would revert at other times to a standard designation such as "SS".<ref name="nyt1935">By Wireless from R.M.S. Empress of Australia. "Royal Gifts Gladden 172 On Lonely Atlantic Island" (Tristan da Cunya)," The New York Times. 24 March 1935; Robinson, Samuel. (1924).</ref><ref>Official report of Capt. S. Robinson, R.N.R.,: Commander of the Canadian Pacific S.S. "Empress of Australia", on the Japanese earthquake, the fire and subsequent relief operations.</ref>

HistoryEdit

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Originally, the British Admiralty operated these ships.<ref>The Admiralty took over the Packet Service from the General Post Office in 1823.</ref>

The designation "RMS" has been used since 1840.<ref>The first citation in The Times is from 18 August 1840.</ref> In 1850 contracts were awarded to private companies. Having the title "RMS" was seen as a mark of quality and a competitive advantage, because the mail had to be on time.

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The most valuable route, with the highest volume, was between Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), in Ireland, and Holyhead in Wales. The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (CDSPCo) won the contract. They bought RMS St Columba and RMS Llewellyn from the Admiralty to supplement their Prince Arthur. In the CDSPCo contract, in 1860, there was a penalty clause of £1 1s 4d for every minute's delay.

The Canadian Pacific Railway's trans-Pacific Royal Mail contract required the building of the first three of a fleet of steamships: the Template:RMS, Template:RMS and Template:RMS which regularly sailed between Vancouver and Asia beginning in 1891.<ref>Kennedy, John. (1903). The History of Steam Navigation, pp. 147–151.</ref> The RMS designation was also used on the ships of the White Star, P&O and Cunard lines of the 19th and 20th centuries. The most famous liner with the RMS title was the Titanic.

Modern timesEdit

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Royal Mail aircraft-marking; on a British Airways Airbus A320-232 G-EUUI

In recent years the shift to air transport for mail has left only three ships with the right to the prefix or its variations: Template:RMS, which serves as a passenger vessel in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada; Template:Ship, which serves the Isles of Scilly; and Template:RMS. The "RMS" prefix was granted to QM2 by Royal Mail when she entered service in 2004 on the Southampton to New York route as a gesture to Cunard's history.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The Royal Mail continues a form of this tradition on modern day airliners. The UK's flag carrier airline, British Airways, is contracted to carry mail on some of its scheduled long-distance routes. Aircraft operating these routes with the facilities to carry mail are allowed to display the Royal Mail's logo and crest on their fuselage, usually alongside their registration markings.

Other designationsEdit

The less-common designations RMMV for Royal Mail Motor Vessel and RMMS for Royal Mail Motor Ship, were used for a period when RMS was restricted to steam-ships. Motor Vessel and Motor Ship indicated that propulsion was provided by diesel rather than steam.

The Template:Ship carries the designation RMV for Royal Mail Vessel and is the only active RMV.

List of current Royal Mail ShipsEdit

Name	Line	In service	Status
Template:Ship	Isles of Scilly Steamship Company	1977	Currently in active service. Officially designated Royal Mail Vessel but has the status of Royal Mail Ship. Currently the only ship still carrying mail for Royal Mail.
Template:RMS	Cunard	2004	Conferred the status of Royal Mail Ship as a gesture to Cunard's history but does not carry mail.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Currently in active service as an ocean liner.
Template:RMS	Muskoka Lakes Navigation Co	1887	Built as SS Nipissing, then as Segwun 1925, out of service from 1958 to 1981; restored 1972–1981 and returned to service since 1981. The only remaining steam-powered Royal Mail Ship.

List of past Royal Mail ShipsEdit

Service dates are the years with the status of Royal Mail Ship. Those highlighted are still in service with the status of Royal Mail Ship.

Name	Line	In service	Left service	Status
Template:RMS	White Star	1907	1934	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1913	1916	Sunk by mine
Alaunia	Cunard	1925	1957	Scrapped
Alaunia	Cunard	1960	1969	Sold 1969 to Brocklebank Line and renamed as Malancha, sold again in 1971 to Panama as Humi Nastta and fate unknown
Template:RMS	Cunard	1911	1930	Built in 1900 as Consuelo, bought by Cunard 1911 & renamed Albania, sold 1912 & renamed Poleric, scrapped 1930
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1913	1916	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later Royal Mail Lines	1926	1958	Scrapped
Template:HMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1906	1948	Scrapped
Template:HMS	Pickford & Black	—	—	—
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1906	1916	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1913	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1921	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Andes	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1913	1929	Scrapped after finishing career as the cruise ship Atlantis
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Lines	1939	1959	Scrapped in 1971 after finishing career as a cruise ship
Template:RMS	Cunard	1921	1948	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1914	1950	Scrapped
Template:RMS	P&O	1898	1916	Sunk by enemy action
Template:HMT	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1905	1917	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1912	1938	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1921	1959	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1923	1957	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1925	1957	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1881	1905	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1916	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1924	1961	Scrapped
Template:SS	White Star	1871	1873	Sunk after collision with rocks
Template:RMS	Cunard	1921	1965	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1906 and 1919	1914 and 1929	Converted as troopship in 1914, then as armed merchant cruiser 1915 and renamed HMS Avoca, return to owners and renamed Avon in 1919; scrapped 1930
Template:RMS	White Star	1904	1933	Scrapped
Template:Ship	IoM Steam Packet	1845	1860	Wrecked
Template:Ship	IoM Steam Packet	1875	1906	Scrapped
Template:Ship	IoM Steam Packet	1908	1915	Sunk by enemy action
Template:Ship	IoM Steam Packet	1927	1965	Scrapped
Template:Ship	IoM Steam Packet	1966	1984	Scrapped
Ben-my-Chree	IoM Steam Packet	1998	2008	Currently on active service as RO/PAX vessel
Template:RMS	Cunard	1913	1938	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1840	1880	Sunk
Template:SS	White Star	1874	1903	Scrapped
Template:HMHS	White Star	1915	1916	Sunk by mine
Template:MV	White Star	1929	1960	Scrapped
Template:SS	British India Steam Navigation Company	1886	1922	Built 1881, sold to China in 1882, scrapped in 1933.
Template:Ship	Union-Castle	1937	1966	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1891	1918	Sank after collision with Template:HMS
Template:RMS	Cunard	1925	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1956	1968	Sold 1968; renamed Fairland; scrapped 2006
Template:RMS	Cunard	1905	1932	Scrapped
Template:MV	Union-Castle	1926 and 1950	1939 and 1963	Commissioned as HMS Carnarvon Castle from 1939 to 1947.
Template:RMS	Cunard	1903	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1905	1933	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard White Star	1948	1974	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1901	1933	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1903	1932	Scrapped
Template:RMS	David MacBrayne	1879	1936	Scrapped
Columba	David MacBrayne	1964	1968	Owned by the Secretary of State for Scotland, chartered to David MacBrayne. Renamed MV Columba in 1968. Currently in active service as Template:MV.
Template:SS	White Star	1923	1935	Scrapped after collision with the Template:SS
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1858	1862	Sold to Cunard, Wilson and Co. Later scrapped
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1864	1888	Scrapped
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1901	1923	Sunk after collision with Template:SS
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1890	1915	Sunk during bad weather
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1904	1940	Sunk by mine
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1914	1954	Scrapped after becoming NT Serpa Pinto
Template:SS	Template:Nowrap	1854	1858	Sold to the Government of Sardinia, renamed Archimedes
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1883	1909	Sunk during bad weather in the River Mersey, December, 1909
Template:RMS<ref name="nyt1942">"Empress of Asia Sunk Last 4 Feb.; Canadian Pacific Liner Hit by Five Bombs in Flight From Singapore MOST OF TROOPS ESCAPED 16,909-Ton Ship Abandoned After Four-Day Fires Had Ruined Her Interior," The New York Times. 20 May 1942.</ref>	Canadian Pacific	1913	1942<ref name="nyt1942"/>	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS<ref name="nyt1935"/>	Canadian Pacific	1922	1952<ref name="nyt1952">40-year-old Ship Makes Last Trip; Empress of Australia, Luxury Liner and Troop Carrier, on Way to Scrap Heap," The New York Times. 1 May 1952.</ref>	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1953	1956	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1906	1930	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1931	1940<ref>"British Announce Empress Ship Loss; Admiralty Fixes Death Toll at 45 Out of 643 Aboard Canadian Pacific Liner TORPEDOES FINISH JOB U-Boat Overtakes Burning Ship in Tow and Completes Task Started by Bomber Ship Attacked Three Times Women and Children Calm," The New York Times. 29 October 1940.</ref>	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1956	1965	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1922	1943	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1929	1953	Scrapped
Template:RMS<ref name="nyt1960">"Transport News and Notes; Empress of France Will Be Retired," New York Times 27 November 1960.</ref>	Canadian Pacific	1961	2003	Scrapped
Template:RMS<ref name="kennedy150">Kennedy, p. 150.</ref>	Canadian Pacific	1891	1912	Scrapped
Template:RMS<ref name="nyt1956">"Lady Eden to Launch Ship," New York Times 5 May 1956.</ref>	Canadian Pacific	1957	1970	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1914	1931	Scrapped
Template:RMS<ref name="kennedy150"/>	Canadian Pacific	1891	1919	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1908	1928	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1906	1914	Sunk after collision with SS Storstad
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1930	1966	Scrapped after fire
Template:RMS<ref name="nyt1949">"Pacific Air Routes Replace Ship Line; Canadian Company Abandons Pre-War Service of Fleet, Maps Overseas Flights," The New York Times. 10 April 1949.</ref>	Canadian Pacific	1913	1945<ref name="nyt1949"/>	Scrapped after fire
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1906	1930	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Canadian Pacific	1930	1966	Scrapped after fire
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1897	1916	Foundered on the Ring Rocks off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, February, 1916
Template:RMS	Cunard	1885	1909	Scrapped
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1881	1929	Scrapped
Template:RMS	IoM Steam Packet	1937	1940	Sunk by enemy action at the Dunkirk evacuation.
Template:MV	IoM Steam Packet	1951	1973	Sold 1973 and renamed Vasso M. Sank off Damietta, 2 February 1977
Template:RMS	Cunard	1922	1956	Scrapped
Franconia	Cunard	1963	1971	See Ivernia.
Template:SS	White Star	1875	1950	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1933	1954	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1922	1935	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1955	1971	Renamed RMS Franconia 1963, sold 1973 and renamed Feodor Shalyapin; scrapped 2004
Kenya Castle	Union-Castle	1951	1967	Sold to Chandris of Greece and renamed Amerikanis; used until 1996 and sold after 2000 and scrapped 2001
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1842	1858	Sold 1858
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1871	1912	Scrapped
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1913	1940	Sunk by enemy action at the Dunkirk evacuation
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1946	1975	Scrapped
Template:MV	IoM Steam Packet	1990	1998	Sold 1998
Template:RMS	Cassar Co. Ltd.	1929	1941	Wrecked
Template:RMS	Cunard	1912	1917	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1922	1942	Sunk by enemy action
Lady Drake	Canadian National	1928	1942	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Canadian National	1928	1942	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Canadian National	1928	1939	Acquired as hospital ship and later as troop ship by Royal Canadian Navy; returned to CN 1946; retired by CN 1952 and sold to Egypt as Gumhuryat Misr for Khedivial Mail Line, renamed Alwadi in 1960; broken up in Egypt 1968
Lady Rodney	Canadian National	1929	1953	Sold to Khedivial Mail Line and renamed Mecca, then to United Arab Maritime Company in 1961; scuttled in Egypt 1967
Lady Somers	Canadian National	1929	1940	Acquired by RN 1940 and sunk in Atlantic Ocean about Template:Convert east of Ponta Delgada, Azores 1941
Template:RMS	IoM Steam Packet	1930	1971	Scrapped
Lady of Mann	IoM Steam Packet	1976	2005	Sold 2005
Template:RMS	Cunard	1920	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	City of Dublin SP	1896	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Template:HMHS	Union-Castle	1914	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Cunard	1893	1909	Scrapped after fire
Template:RMS	Cunard	1907	1915	Sunk after being torpedoed by SM U-20
Template:RMS	White Star	1922	1940	Scrapped
Template:RMS	P&O	1923	1954	Scrapped
Manxman	IoM Steam Packet	1920	1940	Scrapped
Manxman	IoM Steam Packet	1955	1982	Scrapped
Manx Maid	IoM Steam Packet	1923	1950	Scrapped
Manx Maid	IoM Steam Packet	1962	1984	Scrapped
Manx Viking	IoM Steam Packet	1978	1987	Sold 1987
Template:RMS	Cunard White Star	1906	1935	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard White Star	1939	1965	Scrapped
Template:RMS	P&O	1911	1917	Sunk by enemy action
Mona	IoM Steam Packet	1832	1841	Sold 1841
Mona	IoM Steam Packet	1878	1883	Sunk in the Formby Channel, after being struck by the SS Rita
Mona	IoM Steam Packet	1903	1909	Scrapped
Mona	IoM Steam Packet	1919	1938	Scrapped
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1830	1851	Scrapped
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1860	1883	Converted to screw propulsion and renamed Ellan Vannin, sank 1909 in River Mersey
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1882	1915	Scrapped
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1905	1948	Scrapped
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1950	1980	Scrapped
Mona's Isle	IoM Steam Packet	1984	1986	Sold 1986 and renamed Al Fahad; wrecked off Jeddah, June 2004
Mona's Queen	IoM Steam Packet	1853	1880	Scrapped
Mona's Queen	IoM Steam Packet	1885	1929	Recommissioned in 1915; returned to service in 1919; Scrapped by Smith & Company in Port Glasgow, 1929
Mona's Queen	IoM Steam Packet	1934	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Mona's Queen	IoM Steam Packet	1946	1962	Scrapped in 1981
Mona's Queen	IoM Steam Packet	1972	1995	Scrapped in 2008
Template:RMS	P&O	1923	1953	Scrapped
Template:HMHS	Johnston Warren Lines	1925	1943	Burnt out by enemy action
Template:RMS	Union Steamship Co of NZ	1912	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Johnston Warren Lines	1926	1942	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	White Star	1871	1896	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1899	1914	Scrapped
Template:RMS	White Star	1911	1935	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1911	1917	Torpedoed by Template:SMU south of Western Approaches
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1924	1940	Sunk by the Template:Ship off Norway
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1886	1905	Wrecked off Garden Island, Fremantle
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1886	1912	Sold to Cie de Nav. Sud-Atlantique, renamed SS Divona; last owned by Union Industrielle Et Maritime (U.I.M) and scuttled in 1942 off Bizerta, Tunisia, raised and scrapped in 1946
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1920	1927	ex-Template:USS, 1920 renamed Ormuz, 1927 sold to North German Lloyd, renamed Template:SS.
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1902	1916	Lost RMS status in 1916–1917 while serving as a troopship. Laid up in 1921. Sold in 1922 and became the exhibition ship SS British Trade. Repossessed by Orient Line later the same year and reverted to Orontes (although not with the status of RMS). Scrapped in 1926.
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1889	1906	Served as a troop ship between 1899 and 1903 as a troopship during the Second Boer War. Scrapped.
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1889	1906	Scrapped.
Template:RMS	Orient Line	1926 and 1948	1939 and 1957	Served as troop ship HMTS Otranto during World War II. Sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation as scrap and broken up at Faslane.
Template:HMS	IoM Steam Packet	1912	1939	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1959	1980	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1855	1872	Scrapped
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1884	1899	Sank off Douglas after a collision with SS Monarch 16 September 1899
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1929	1964	Scrapped
Port Kingston	Imperial Direct West Mail Co	1904	1911	Sold to Union Steamship Co of NZ; renamed Template:RMS; sank 1930
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1888	1915	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard White Star	1947	1968	Launched in 1940 and served as a troop ship until 1946. Scrapped after arson fire.
Template:RMS	Cunard White Star	1936 and 1947	1940 and 1967	Served as a troop ship from 1940 to 1946. Decommissioned in 1967; currently restaurant/hotel/museum in Long Beach, California
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1834	1845	Sold 1845; eventually reported lost off the Falkland Islands
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1888	1915	Scrapped
Template:RMS	British-India SN Co	1881	1890	Wrecked
Template:SS	IoM Steam Packet	1904	1936	Scrapped
Template:RMS	New Zealand Shipping Co	1911	1940	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Oceanic Steam Navigation d/b/a White Star Line	1903	1909	Sunk after collision with another ship
Template:RMS	New Zealand Shipping Co	1910	1917	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Royal Mail Steam Packet Company	1865	1867	Wrecked
Template:RMS	City of Dublin SP	1838	1849	Sank
Template:RMS	IoM Steam Packet	1898	1947	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1920	1956	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1900	1925	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1954	1999	In 1962 renamed Carmania; in 1973 sold & renamed Leonid Sobinov, scrapped 1999
Template:RMS	HM Government	1977	1990	Ex-Northland Prince. Lost RMS status in 1990 and renamed St Helena Island. Renamed Avalon in 1990 and Indooceanique in 1993. Scrapped in 1996.
Template:RMS	HM Government	1990	2018	Last ocean-crossing ship in regular mail-carrying service. Used as headquarters for the Extreme E racing series.
Template:Ship	Isles of Scilly SC	1926	1955	Scrapped
Template:Ship	Isles of Scilly SC	1955	1977	Sold and eventually sank after owner abandoned her in 2004
Template:RMS	Cunard	1861	1904	Wrecked
Template:RMS	Cunard	1874	1899	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1921	1958	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1881	1901	Scrapped
Template:RMS	British-India SN Co	1902	1909	Wrecked
Snaefell	IoM Steam Packet	1863	1875	Sold 1875
Snaefell	IoM Steam Packet	1876	1904	Scrapped
Template:RMS	IoM Steam Packet	1910	1918	Sunk by enemy action
Snaefell	IoM Steam Packet	1920	1945	Scrapped 1948
Snaefell	IoM Steam Packet	1948	1978	Scrapped 1978
Snaefell	IoM Steam Packet	2006	2011	Built 1991, acquired 2006, sold 2011.
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1965	1978	Sold to Cost Armatori of Italy with Good Hope Castle and renamed Paola C; scrapped in China 1984
Template:RMS	P&O	1931	1961	RMS status removed in 1954 and renamed SS Strathaird. Scrapped.
Template:RMS	P&O	1931	1962	RMS status removed in 1954 and renamed SS Strathnaver. Scrapped.
Template:RMS	Cunard	1957	2004	Sold 1968 & renamed Fairwind; scrapped 2004
Template:RMS	Union Steamship Co of NZ	1911	1930	Hull holed by broken propeller; sank
Template:RMS	White Star (not OSNC)	1853	1853	Ran aground
The Ramsey	IoM Steam Packet	1895	1915	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	White Star	1912	1912	Sunk after collision with iceberg
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1961	2000	Sold 1966 to Safmarine and renamed "SA Vaal"; left Royal Mail service 1969; scrapped 2003
Template:RMS	Royal Mail SP	1841	1865	Scrapped
Tynwald	IoM Steam Packet	1846	1886	Sold 1866
Tynwald	IoM Steam Packet	1886	1888	Sold 1888
Tynwald	IoM Steam Packet	1891	1934	Sold 1934
Template:HMS	IoM Steam Packet	1936	1939	Sunk by enemy action
Tynwald	IoM Steam Packet	1947	1974	Scrapped 1975
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Tyrconnel	IoM Steam Packet	1911	1932	Scrapped
Template:RMS	Cunard	1884	1910	Scrapped
Template:RMS	P&O	1927	1942	Sunk by enemy action
Victoria	IoM Steam Packet	1907	1957	Scrapped
Template:MV	East African Railways & Harbours	1961	1977	Lost status when EAR&H was dissolved; still in service as "MV Victoria"
Template:RMS	Allan Line	1904	1929	World's first steam turbine ocean liner; scrapped 1929
Viking	IoM Steam Packet	1905	1954	Scrapped in 1954
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1922	1943	Sunk by enemy action
Template:RMS	Union-Castle	1960	1998	Scrapped

NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

Kennedy, John. (1903). The History of Steam Navigation. Liverpool: C. Birchall, 1903. OCLC 3553860