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SS Servia
''SS Servia'', also known as RMS ''Servia'', was a successful transatlantic passenger and mail steamer of revolutionary design, built by J & G Thomson of Clydebank (later John Brown & Company) and launched in 1881. She was the first large ocean liner to be built of steel instead of iron, and the first Cunard ship to have an electric lighting installation. For these and other reasons, maritime historians often consider ''Servia'' to be the first "modern" ocean liner.
== Background ==
In 1878, Samuel Cunard's British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was reorganised into limited company and officially named Cunard. This capitalisation allowed it to use shareholder money to build larger, more expensive ships. A new policy to this end was put into effect by Cunard's new chairman, John Burns, and announced in the London ''Times''.
Launched on 1 March 1881, ''Servia'' was the first of Cunard's new breed of ocean liners. She was the second largest ship in the world at 515 feet long and 52.1 feet wide,〔 surpassed only by Brunel's ''SS Great Eastern''. With her design and construction guided by admirality specifications, ''Servia'' had many features that satisfied the requirements for her to be placed high on the admiralty's reserve list of the armed auxiliary cruisers,〔 where she could be called into service in times of war.
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