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Mauretania - Full speed ahead
Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Here's "Mauretania" at full speed, built by the shipbuilders Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, at the Wallsend shipyard.
RMS MAURETANIA was one of the most famous ships ever built on Tyneside.
Ref number: TWAS:DS.SWH/4/PH/7/6/60
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