• the Royal Navy repair ship HMS Artifex previously served as a liner for Cunard and as an armed merchant cruiser?

Facts on topics related to HMS Artifex (F28)

SS Letitia

• sightings of Captain Cook were common around New Zealand as late as the 1950s?

RMS Lusitania

• James Howden invented the marine forced draught system that was used on the Lusitania and Mauretania?
• the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 (pictured) in Nantwich, Cheshire, was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?

RMS Mauretania (1906)

• James Howden invented the marine forced draught system that was used on the Lusitania and Mauretania?

RMS Queen Mary

• RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary were fitted with stabilisers after the improvement in passenger comfort and reduction in rolling that was seen on RMS Media?

Cunard Line

• the Royal Navy repair ship HMS Artifex previously served as a liner for Cunard and as an armed merchant cruiser?