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RMS '''''Mauretania''''' was launched in 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead . A successor to RMS ''Mauretania'' (1906) , the second ''Mauretania'' was the largest Ship built in England up to that time, and the first ship built for Cunard-White Star . She made her Maiden Voyage from Liverpool to New York on 17 June 1939 and switched to the London -New York service in August of the same year. She made two Atlantic crossings after World War II broke out. Converted into a troopship at Sydney in 1940 , Mauretania remained in that service through the end of the war, traveling 540,000 miles and carrying over 350,000 troops. After being refitted, she returned to Cunard-White Star service in 1947 , principally on the Southampton -New York route. She was also used extensively for cruising, including a world cruise in 1958 , and was painted green in 1962 . Switched to the New York- Mediterranean service in 1963 , she made her last sailing, New York-Mediterranean- Southampton in September , 1965 , and was then sold for scrapping at Inverkeithing . |
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