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&sq=&lang=&file=File:RMS_Laconia_1912.jpg) RMS Laconia at Liverpool with the tender Skirmisher.
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| History | |
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| Name | RMS Laconia |
| Namesake | Laconia in the Peloponnese |
| Owner | Cunard Line |
| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Swan Hunter, Wallsend |
| Launched | 27 July 1911 |
| Acquired | 12 December 1911 |
| Maiden voyage | 20 January 1912 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk 25 February 1917 by SM U-50 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 18,099 GRT |
| Length | 183 m (600 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 22 m (72 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | Eight-cylinder quadruple-expansion engines by Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company |
| Propulsion | Twin propellers |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, with the wife of the U.S. Ambassador Mrs. Whitelaw Reid christening the vessel.[1] Laconia was delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912.[2] She was the first Cunard ship of that name. She was torpedoed and sunk on 25 February 1917 during World War I; 12 passengers were killed.
Laconia was intended for the Liverpool-Boston service with cruising from New York to the Mediterranean off season.[1] The ship was the first British ship and first North Atlantic liner to be equipped with anti-roll tanks.[1]
- ^ a b c "The Latest Cunarder – Launch of the Laconia at Wallsend". International Marine Engineering. 34 (September). Marine Engineering, Inc., New York—London: 42. 1911. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ "The Cunard Liner Laconia" (PDF). The Engineer. Vol. 113. 26 January 1912. pp. 85–57.