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    A lovely color postcard of RMS Majestic (II) advertising her as the world’s largest ship at 56,551 GRT.

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    RMS Majestic vs RMS Olympic vs RMS Homeric passenger statistics from 1922 to 1929

    According to Mark Chirnside’s book about the RMS Olympic, RMS Majestic carried a total of 274,514 passengers between 1922 and 1929. She made 221 transatlantic crossings over that 8 year span, averaging 1,242 passengers per crossing. Over the same timespan, RMS Olympic made 234 transatlantic...
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    Fire on 29 September 1939

    Hello all! I am interested in Majestic (II) and have read many books and web pages which mention only that "[o]n 29 September 1939 the Caledonia caught fire, burnt out and sank at its moorings in Rosyth". As the WWII was already in progress by then, I have always thought that it was sunk by...
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    News from 1937-38: Majestic II becomes RMS Caledonia

    The New York Times, 10 April 1938 LINER MAJESTIC SERVES AS NAVAL TRAINING SHIP --- Few passengers who knew the old White Star liner Majestic, once famous as the largest ship in the world, would recognize H. M. S. Caledonia, now serving as a British naval training ship at Rosyth dockyard...
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