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    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...
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  • The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distributions Services...
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    Packet boat (redirect from Mail steamer)
    Brussels, nicknamed "Packet Boat" Ocean liner Pony Express Postal history Royal Mail Ship Brinnin, John Malcolm (1971). The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social...
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    and one (i.e., 5 total) men per oar Royal Mail Ship Any ship carrying mail for the British Royal Mail, allocated ship prefix RMS while doing so. Typically...
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    together with commemorative stamps and coins. Royal Mail (whose mail was carried by RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic) issued ten 1st class UK postage stamps...
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  • purpose (e.g., "RMS" for a Royal Mail ship or "RV" for research vessel) are also used.[citation needed] Prefixes used for naval ships primarily reflect ownership...
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    steam turbine. The name of steam ships are often prefixed with SS or S/S Royal Mail Ship (RMS) – Royal Mail Ship Ship prefix "Mississippi River Commission"...
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  • Postal Service's First Class Mail, it is generally for a period of one year. British Royal Mail provides a service called Mail Redirection, enabling redirection...
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    MY = Motor Yacht NS = Nuclear Ship RMS = Royal Mail Ship RRS = Royal Research Ship RV = Research Vessel SS = Steam Ship SV = Sailing vessel/Sailing Vessel...
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    Majesty's Ship. For the name of the ship, it must be granted by the King. See ship prefix for a list Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Category:Ships of the Royal Navy...
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    1914. She was given the title of Royal Mail Ship (RMS) like many other Cunard ocean liners since she carried the royal mail on many of her voyages. Aquitania...
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    RMS St Helena (1989) (category Passenger ships of the United Kingdom)
    St Helena service she was one of only four ships in the world still carrying the status of Royal Mail Ship. Locals including local press have usually...
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  • computer programmer Royal Mail Ship, the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail Resilient Multi-mission...
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  • commission in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1945 RMS St Helena (1963), a British Royal Mail Ship RMS St Helena (1989), a British Royal Mail Ship Saint Helena...
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    RMV Scillonian III (category 1977 ships)
    Scilly and is one of only three ships in the world still carrying the status of Royal Mail Ship (hence RMV – Royal Mail Vessel). RMV Scillonian III was...
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    4pm a Union-Castle Royal Mail Ship would leave Southampton bound for Cape Town. At the same time, a Union-Castle Royal Mail Ship would leave Cape Town...
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    (excluding day visitors arriving on cruise ships) was 307, with an average of 245 arriving on the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Saint Helena. Between October 2017...
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    for lifeboats when they sighted the Royal Mail Ship Trent near Bermuda. Kiddo then was retired from being a ship's cat and was taken care of by Edith Wellman...
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  • RMS Andes (1939) (category Ship infoboxes without an image)
    steam turbine Royal Mail Ship, ocean liner, cruise ship, and the flagship of the Royal Mail Lines fleet. She was the second Royal Mail ship to be named...
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    HMHS Asturias (category 1908 ships)
    Asturias was a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ocean liner that was built in Ireland in 1908 and scrapped in Japan in 1933. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1914...
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    RMS Atrato (1853) (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
    for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company as a side-wheel paddle steamer, and at the time of her launch was the world's largest passenger ship. In 1870...
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    cruise ships List of largest passenger ships List of river cruise ships "Royal Mail Lines, Ltd". The Royal Mail Story. Archived from the original on 16...
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    Majesty's Ship), while a few examples for prefixes for merchant ships are "RMS" (Royal Mail Ship, usually a passenger liner), "MV" (Motor Vessel, powered by...
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    RMS Empress of China (1890) (category Ships of CP Ships)
    ship foundered on the rocks in 1907. The Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya were dispatched to assist in removing mail, baggage, and passengers. The ship...
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    Mail boats or postal boats are a boat or ship used for the delivery of mail, and sometimes transportation of goods, people and vehicles, in communities...
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    the 19th century, the British typically used mail to refer to letters being sent abroad (i.e. on a ship) and post to refer to letters for domestic delivery...
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    The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique...
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    RMS Windsor Castle (1959) (category 1959 ships)
    Union-Castle Line on its Cape Mail service between Britain and South Africa. Completed in 1960, the new Royal Mail Ship was notable for the high standard...
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    its four ships have been registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. In 1839, Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract,...
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    RMS Rhone (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
    RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin...
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