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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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    transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company in Glasgow with shipowner...
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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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    Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, is a ferry company that carries passengers, vehicles and freight...
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    The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company was a shipping line established in 1823. It served cross-channel routes between Britain and Ireland for over a...
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    African mail contract jointly to both the Castle Mail Packet Company and the Union Line. The contract included a condition that the two companies would...
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    The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service...
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    1905 the company sold its London – Sydney route to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which bought the entire company in 1910. Pacific Steam continued...
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    liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on Wednesday 5 February...
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    The Royal Mail Case or R v Kylsant & Otrs was a noted English criminal case in 1931. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Lord Kylsant...
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    until her owners went out of business. She was sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and was scrapped in 1856 after serving as a troopship during...
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    the owner of the largest fleet in the world thanks to his Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC). The IMM continued to manage the American White Star...
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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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    Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and by 1902 Owen had become chairman and managing director of the line. Over the next twenty years he and the Royal Mail...
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  • submarine HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette...
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    the Royal Mail Building which was the former quarters of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. During the later 1900s it was operated as the Royal Mail Inn...
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    RMS Arlanza (1911) (category World War I Auxiliary cruisers of the Royal Navy)
    the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She was built in Belfast in 1912 for RMSP's scheduled route between England and South America. She was a Royal Navy...
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    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...
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    Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers...
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    SS Orduña (category Ships of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company)
    Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. In 1921 she went to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, then being...
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    refit had been completed at the end of 1922, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co had full control of Pacific Steam, and Orca and her two sisters were transferred...
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  • Georgia, United States Royal Mail Lines, once a major shipping company, the successor to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company All pages with titles containing...
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    SS Arcadian (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
    Maxim Ltd for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company as Ortona. She was renamed Arcadian when the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company acquired her in 1906. She...
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  • HMS Tamar (category Royal Navy ship names)
    merchantnavyofficers.com. Retrieved 28 April 2010. "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / Royal Mail Lines Limited". The Ships List. Archived from the original...
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    RMS Trent (category Ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company)
    Trent was a British Royal Mail paddle steamer built in 1841 by William Pitcher of Northfleet for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She measured 1,856...
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    barque, paddle steamer and Royal Mail Ship. She was the first of 5 sister ships commissioned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to serve RMSP's routes...
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  • Asturias, a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company passenger liner launched in 1907 and scrapped in 1933 RMS Asturias, a Royal Mail Steam Packet Company passenger...
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    Barbados Yacht Club (category Royal yacht clubs)
    Marine Superintendant of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company which owned the property. The building was operated as the Royal Hotel - Barbados from 1911-1918...
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    Blue Star Line (category Transport companies established in 1911)
    America to Britain, initially from Argentina on ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and other shipping lines that called at South American ports...
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    launched on 4 March 1874 for the British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which became the Cunard Line in 1879. Constructed with an...
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