RMS Alaunia (1913)
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RMS Alaunia was a Cunard ocean liner. She was built in 1913 at Greenock and measured Template:GRT.[1] She was one of three sister ships Cunard ordered from Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. Her sisters were Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. Alaunia was the second of the trio. She and her sisters had only 2nd class and 3rd class accommodation.
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Alaunia was launched on 9 June 1913, and began her maiden voyage on 27 December 1913. When World War I began in 1914, she was requisitioned as a troopship. HMS Alaunia was the first Cunard ship to carry Canadian troops. Then she worked on carrying troops of the Home Counties Division to Bombay in October.[2] She was sent to the Gallipoli campaign by the summer of 1915. She returned to the North Atlantic and carried troops from Canada and the USA in 1916. During a voyage from London to New York, she struck a mine on 19 October 1916 in the English Channel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship off Eastbourne, East Sussex.[3] laid earlier that day by Template:SMU.[4] After attempts to beach the ship and tow her to shore with tugs, her captain realized the ship was lost and finally gave the order to abandon ship. Two crew members were killed in her sinking. AlauniaTemplate:'s wreck lies on its port side in the English Channel at a depth of Script error: No such module "convert"..[5]
Cunard revived the name in 1925 when it had a second Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built. She served until 1957.[6]
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- ↑ Col H.C. Wylly, History of the Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment in the Great War, Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1925/Uckfield, Naval & Military Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-84342539-7, p. 179.
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- Ships of the Cunard Line
- Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
- 1913 ships
- Troop ships of the United Kingdom
- Maritime incidents in 1916
- Ships sunk by mines
- Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
- World War I shipwrecks in the English Channel