RMS Lusitania
Royal Mail Ship
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Lusitania was a British
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designed by Leonard Peskett
Leonard Peskett
Leonard Peskett, OBE was the Cunard Line's Senior Naval Architect and Designer and the designer of sister ships RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, as well as their 'half-sister,' RMS Aquitania, and the RMS Carmania....
and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank
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, Scotland
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. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line
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on 26 August 1907 and continued on the line's heavily-traveled passenger service between Liverpool, England and New York City
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, which included a port of call at Queenstown (now Cobh
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) Ireland on westbound crossings and Fishguard, Wales on eastbound crossings.
Would a 3rd class passenger ticketed for Lusitania having missed the movement be entitled to a cash refund?