Which ocean liner was built by John Brown & Company and until 1952 held the transatlantic speed record?
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John W. Anderson (sailor) Commodore John William Anderson (February 14, 1899 – February 15, 1976) was the longest serving captain of the  , the fastest ocean liner in history. In 1952, he relieved Commodore Harry Manning as master of the superliner after the recordbreaking voyage on which she broke the translantic speed record previously held by the RMS Queen Mary and captured the Blue Riband for the United States.
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RMS Queen Mary RMS "Queen Mary" is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, "Queen Mary", along with  , were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. The two ships were a British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s. "Queen Mary" was the flagship of the Cunard Line from May 1936 until October 1946 when she was replaced in that role by "Queen Elizabeth".
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SS Reina del Mar (1955) Reina del Mar was a  GRT liner which was built by Harland and Wolff in 1955 for Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC). It operated as a passenger liner from the United Kingdom to the western coast of South American until the early 1960s. The "Reina del Mar" was then a cruise liner that operated out of Southampton during the summer months and out of South Africa during the winter months. It was scrapped in 1975.
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RMS Magdalena (1948) Magdalena was a  GRT passenger and refrigerated cargo ocean liner that Harland and Wolff built in Belfast in 1948 for Royal Mail Lines (RML). Launched on 11 May 1948, she was the third-largest ship being built in a UK shipyard at that time.
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SS Tauric SS "Tauric" was an ocean liner built in 1891 by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line and completed on 16 May 1891. Though designed as a livestock carrier, "Tauric" carried a small amount of cabin-(second-) and steerage-(third-) class passengers. Her maiden voyage began at Liverpool and ended at New York. After this, "Tauric" began running the Liverpool to Portland route. In 1903, the White Star Line had the ship chartered to the Dominion Line, now taking on the name "Welshman". The Dominion Line in turn transferred her to the Leyland Line in 1921. She was scrapped eight years later, in 1929.
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MS Gripsholm (1924) MS "Gripsholm" was an ocean liner, built in 1924 by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for the Swedish American Line for use in the Gothenburg-New York City run. She was of great historical importance as the first ship built for transatlantic express service as a diesel-powered motor vessel, rather than as a conventional steamship. Within forty years, however, all major passenger vessels would be diesel-powered.
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MS Oslofjord (1949) MS "Oslofjord" was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1949 by Netherlands Shipbuilding Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands for Norwegian America Line. As built she was 16,844 gross register tons, and could carry 620 passengers.
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RMS Majestic (1914) RMS "Majestic was a White Star ocean liner working on the North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Line liner SS "Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship in the world until completion of  in 1935.
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RMS Atlantic RMS "Atlantic" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of  on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of "Titanic" in April 1912.
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RMS Atrato (1853) RMS "Atrato" was a UK iron-hulled steamship. She was built in 1853 for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company as a side-wheel paddle steamer, and when completed was the World's largest passenger ship. She was a Royal Mail Ship until 1870.
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SS Ranchi The SS "Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. During World War II she served as an armed merchant cruiser HMS "Ranchi.
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MV Holmglen MV "Holmglen II" was a steel-hull coastal trader built in 1967 by Maartenshoek, Netherlands based shipyard Bodewes Scheepswerven for the Holm Shipping Company of New Zealand. It was 485 gross tons, max speed 9 knots powered by a four-cylinder diesel engine.
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Golden Hinde (1973) The Golden Hinde (launched 1973) is a full-size replica of the "Golden Hind" (launched 1577). She was built by traditional handcraft in Appledore, Torridge. She has travelled more than 140000 mi , a distance equal to more than five times around the globe. Like the original ship, she has circumnavigated the globe.
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RMS Empress of Russia The RMS "Empress of Russia" was an ocean liner built in 1912-1913 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific steamships (CP). This ship regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route between Canada and the Far East.
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Greek Line The Greek Line, formally known as the General Steam Navigation Company of Greece, was a passenger ship line that operated from 1939 to 1975. The Greek Line was owned by the Ormos Shipping Company. The line operated transatlantic and short-to-long distance voyages. The company later began operating leisure cruises as the jet age replaced passenger ships as the means of transportation across the Atlantic Ocean.
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SS America (1939) SS "America" was an ocean liner launched in 1939 by Eleanor Roosevelt for United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS "America" (carrying this name three different times during her career), the USS "West Point", the SS "Australis", the SS "Italis", the SS "Noga", the SS "Alferdoss", and the SS "American Star". She served most notably in passenger service as the SS "America", and as the Greek-flagged SS "Australis", She was finally wrecked as the SS "American Star" at Playa de Garcey on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in 1994. The wreck is still there to this day, but has now mostly collapsed into the sea and only the keel remains visible at low tide.
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Miyazaki Maru Miyazaki Maru (宮崎丸 ) was an 8,520-ton Japanese ocean liner built in 1909 by Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. in Kobe. While steaming from Yokohama, Japan, to London during World War I, she was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 150 miles to the west of the Isles of Scilly on 31 May 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine "U-88" , with the loss of eight lives.
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RMS Caronia (1904) RMS "Caronia" was a British ocean liner, launched on 13 July 1904. She was built for Cunard by John Brown & Co. of Glasgow. She was the only ship in the Cunard fleet to be named after an American, being named after Caro Brown, granddaughter of Cunard's New York agent. She left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 25 February 1905. A successful 1906 cruise from New York to the Mediterranean led to "Caronia"' s being used for cruising frequently in the coming years.
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SS Principessa Mafalda The SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship entered NGI's South American service between Genoa and Buenos Aires in 1909. At the time of her completion she was the largest Italian passenger ship afloat. The "Mafalda" was known for her luxury and was the preferred mode of travel for such celebrities of the day as Carlos Gardel.
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SS Athenia SS "Athenia" was a steam turbine transatlantic passenger liner built in Glasgow in 1923 for the Anchor-Donaldson Line, which later became the Donaldson Atlantic Line. She worked between the United Kingdom and the east coast of Canada until September 1939, when a torpedo from a German submarine sank her in the Western Approaches. There were 117 fatalities.
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SS Great Western SS "Great Western" of 1838, was an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, "Great Western" proved satisfactory in service and was the model for all successful wooden Atlantic paddle-steamers. She was capable of making record Blue Riband voyages as late as 1843. "Great Western" worked to New York for 8 years until her owners went out of business. She was sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and was scrapped in 1856 after serving as a troop ship during the Crimean War.
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Blue Funnel Line Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK's larger shipowning and operating companies, and as such had a significant role in the country's overseas trade and in the First and Second World Wars.