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The RMS Aquitania is the sister of Lusitania and Mauretania. Unlike her sisters she much bigger and follows the White Star Line's image of large and luxourious. She is also slower than her older sisters.Aquitania served as a Hostpital Ship druing WW1 and a troop transport in WW2. She lasted until 1949 where she was retired shortly after a piano fell through the deck, showing her age. In 1950 she was scrapped. By the time of her scrapping, she was the last of the great 4 funnled Oceanliners.
Edit: Added some details from what i seen from a CUNARD Poster featuring the Aquitania
Edit 2: Modified the hull, increased water level and reduced gap between portholes.
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im working on a new ship named MS sritanni do ya have any ideas for her?
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I've read all the comments on all your posts. All your ocean liners are amazing!
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Thank you very much
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Your welcome, dude.
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Glad you like her
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Aquitania was not a sistership to Lusitania & Mauretania. Sisterships are built to the same plans and are very similar to each other. Aquitania was 1/3 larger than her "cousins" and fitted out in a very different matter.
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Back then,classes were different.They didn't have to be the same.Only if classes were the same,*sighs*,I would be one happy person.
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The "piano falling through her deck" has never been proven and is probably an exaggeration, if it happened at all.
Aquitania was retired because she was redundant in the post-WW2 Cunard fleet and would have required a thorough overhaul after December 1949 to remain in service. Β
Source: RMS Aquitania-The Ship Beautiful. By Mark Chirnside.
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I heard of her before, but i just saw her when watching "Flyboys", a movie about fighter pilots in WWI, then i searched about her. She was very beautiful and it's sad that she no longer exists. So much history for all the years of service at the seas.
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wait...Aquitania was in "Flyboys"? I'll have to watch it...because knowing me, I'll criticize them if they get her appearance wrong.Β
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It's a very quick shot at the beginning of the movie, around 5 minutes, here: puu. sh/cbREP/4f334e3b49 .png. (The damn DeviantArt thinks it's spam everytime i use a link, god dammit...)
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Is there a specific version of the movie she's in? Where is she seen? (how far in)
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No idea, sorry. ):
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yea its a shame we lost so many of those great 4 stackers
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We didn't lose them; they lived out their lives and went the way we all shall go... ;~}
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Never new a lot about this ship. Still wonderful.
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i didn't know about until i looked up more on Lusitania and Mauretania
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this is amazing! but correct me if i'm wrong, the black section at the top of the funnel seems too short, on the real thing the level of black comes down slightly lower?
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I used the funnels from my Lusitania but the references I saw showed funnels like that, it was hard to find a good reference since she's not that we'll known, I didn't know she existed until not long before I did the pic.
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The front cowl vents remind me of your Raise the Titanic picture because it also feature tall cowl vents.
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the Raise the Titanic model was altered so it had a smillar appearance to the live action ship they used for when onboard her
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it's weird if you notice she looks like Britannic in WW1 and then looks like Olympic painted in dazzle camouflage in WW1 then later on looks like titanic with the same paint style as the picture only with orange instead of red on her funnels (I think). Aquitania WAS the last 4 stacker.
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She's called "Ship Beautiful". But she had too many too many cowl ventilators. And the ones on the bow made her look a bit strange when I saw the photographs. And are her funnels that long?
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don't know but the funnels are the same ones i used on my Lusitania and Mauretania pics
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Aquitania and Mauretania have been forgotten but I can't believe that.
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they are the least heard of
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I just can't believe that. There are many photographs of them.
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hmmm, I was under the impression that Aquintania was originally a German vessel taken as a spoil of war after WW1 to replace the Lusitania.
I must be thinking of a different ship, I'm kinda rusty on my Cunard History 
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Yea, i remember a ship that was taken from the germans, can't remember which one though. Aquitania was built in the image of the CUNARD's rival's White Star Olympic class for size and luxury.
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Ah, it was the Hapag line "Imperator" which Cunard renamed "Berengaria" [link]
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(i'm sorry for bringing back thisΒ 7 year post)
There was also a White Star Liner that the germans gave to them to replace either Britannic or another lost white star liner.
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Sorry That i'm Saying this but every Kid i know has
never heard of the R.M.S Aquitania! Are you making this up?
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OK! i'l get back to you as soon as i can ok!
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Awesome pic!
My grandmother actually Came to North America on that ship after WW2. I remember that she had some pictures from the voyage.
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i'm glad you like it, after the war, she had some bad time
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Did you know that the Aquitania was actually created by an engineer by copying features of the Olympic?
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nope. its no wonder why the Aquitania followed the style of the Olympic Class then
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4, two props on either side
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Oh.. 'cause it looks like she have 3 propellers
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how does it looks like she has 3?
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