The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique. After a troubled start, it became the larg
Share of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, issued 16 February 1920
RMS Asturias in a 1930 poster by Kenneth Shoesmith, who created a number of images advertising Royal Mail Lines ships
RMS Andes
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RMS Andes was a 26,689 GRT steam turbine Royal Mail Ship, ocean liner, cruise ship, and the flagship of the Royal Mail Lines fleet. She was the second Royal Mail ship to be named after the South Ameri
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
…by sister ships Amazon, Araguaya and Avon in 1906, and Asturias in 1908. A few years later the final four "A-liners" were built: Arlanza in 1912, Andes and Alcantara in 1913 and Almanzora in 1915. Earlier members of the series, from Aragon to Asturias, had twin screws, each driven by a four-cylinder…
The German liner Cap Arcona, launched in 1927, outperformed RMSP's Asturias and Alcantara
The French liner Pasteur, launched in 1938, was to have competed with Andes. Instead in 1941 the two sailed together as troop ships in convoys WS 7 and TC 11.
HMS Revenge escorted two convoys that included Andes: TC 2 from Canada to Scotland in December 1939 and WS 7 from Scotland to Sierra Leone in March and April 1941