Old Travel Blog Photograph Launching Aquitania Clydebank Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the launching of the Aquitania ocean liner on 21 April 1913, at the John Brown and Company Shipyard in Clydebank by Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish shipyard built many notable and world famous ships including RMS Lusitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. At its height, from 1900 to the 1950s, it was one of the most highly regarded, and internationally famous, shipbuilding companies in the world. Aquitania sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on 30 May 1914. Aquitania was the third in Cunard Line's " grand trio " of express liners, preceded by RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, and was the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner. Shortly after entering service, World War I broke out, during which she was first transformed into an auxiliary cruiser before being transformed into a troop transport and a hospital ship, notably as part of the Dardanelles Campaign.



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