Aquitania

The RMS Aquitania was a luxury liner built by the Cunard Line in 1914

Early Life
Aquitaine started construction in 1910 and was Cunard Line's answer to White Star Line's Olympic Class.

Aquitania was launched in February 1914 and her Madian voyage was in June of that year. RMS Aquitania only served for a few months as World War 1 broke out in August of that year.

World War 1
In Aug 1914 world war 1 broke out and Aquitania was converted into an armed merchant cruiser. she only served as an armed merchant cruiser for a few months because it was later decided that she was unfit for this role and was laid up until July 1915 when she was ordered for troop transport. She served as a troop ship for a few months in mid 1915 and was later converted into a Hospital ship and remand that way until early 1917 when she was converted back into a troopship and was given a new dazzle look.



Post War
In 1919 Aquitania was converted back to an ocean liner and was repainted back to her original colors. She was also converted from coal to oil. In 1928 she started service as a part time cruise ship and 3rd class replaced with tourist class



World War 2
In 1940 Aquitania was converted back into a troopship for the 3rd time. She was panted gray and had large guns installed.



Final Years
After the war ended in 1945 she took American and Canadian troops home. In 1946 she was converted back to an ocean liner and was repainted back to her original colors. She served as an ocean liner until 1950 when she was sold for scraping. Note that RMS Aquitaine was the longest serving Cunard ship and was one of the only ocean liners to serve in both world wars

List of refits
1915- Converted to a Hospital Ship

1917- Dazzle Camouflage

1920- Converted to Oil

1925- Tourist Class is added

1940- Converted to a Troop ship

1946- Converted to a Cruise ship