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RMS ''Alaunia'' was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line. It was built in 1913 at Greenrock and measured 13,405 tons gross. She was one of the three ships Cunard ordered Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company to build. These three ships were , ''Alaunia'', and . The ''Alaunia'' was the second of these three ships. She and her sisters had only 2nd class and 3rd class. ''Alaunia'' was launched on 9 June 1913, and made her maiden voyage on 27 December 1913. When World War I began, she was requisitioned as a troopship. The HMS ''Alaunia'' was the first Cunard ship to transport Canadian troops. She was sent in the Gallipoli campaign by the summer of 1915. Then she worked on carrying troops to Bombay later the same year. She returned to the North Atlantic and carried troops from Canada and America in 1916. On 19 September 1916, when she made her voyage from London to New York, she struck a mine on 19 October 1916 off the Royal Sovereign Lightship of Hastings, East Sussex laid earlier that day by 〔Spindler, Handelskrieg, Vol III. pp.306-7.〕 After attempts to beach the ship and tow her to shore with tugs, the captain realized the ship was lost and finally gave the order to abandon ship. Although the Alaunia's sinking could not be stopped, two crew members died. Today, the wreck of the ''Alaunia'' lies on her port side in the English Channel in 15 metres of water. Cunard revived the name in 1925 when they built a second RMS ''Alaunia'', which served until 1957.〔("RMS Alaunia", ''The Ships List'' website, retrieved 14 Oct 2014 )〕 ==References== * http://www.cunard.com/AboutCunard/default.asp?Active=Heritage&Sub=Fleet picture - http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/cunard6.html 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RMS Alaunia (1913)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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