Royal Mail Ship

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British service flag, used by the RMS

Royal Mail Ship (or Steamer ), mostly abbreviated RMS or RMS , was prefixed to the name of all ships carrying mail from the British Royal Mail . The abbreviation has been used since 1840. The Cunard Line was the largest mail carrier at the time, and all of its ships bore this prefix ; the RMS  Titanic also carried this addition. In the 20th century, airmail largely supplanted mail by ship. Only a few mail ships still operated on the Atlantic , for example the RMS  St. Helena , which delivered the island of St. Helena with mail, or the Queen Mary 2 , which is mainly known as a passenger ship .

Since the last trip of the RMS St. Helena from St. Helena to Cape Town on February 10, 2018, there are only three Royal Mail Ships: the RMS Queen Mary 2 , the RMS Segwun and the RMV Scillionian III. In the latter case, the prefix RMV stands for Royal Mail Vessel ("Royal Mail watercraft"), which is used exclusively on motor ships .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1908, Volume 13, p. 913