MS Mauretania III (1983: Doomsday)

MS Mauretania III is a Celtic ship that serves as both an ocean liner and cruise ship. She is currently the flagship of the revived Cunard Line following the sinking of the MS Aquitania II in 2010.

Background
Robert Harrison Cunard is a Englishman who is a descendant of Baron Samuel Cunard, a Canadian-born British shipping magnate who founded the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company along with Robert Napier. The company would later be renamed the Cunard Line. Robert Cunard is a self-described history buff who was fascinated with his ancestor and his company.

He was on holiday in Dublin on 26 September 1983, when much of the known world was destroyed in the first and only nuclear war. In the aftermath, he voluntarily signed up for the Irish Naval Service and served on a makeshift hospital ship traveling between Dublin and Northeast England. He left the navy in 1989, and during the early years of the Celtic Alliance, he settled in Dublin and married Angelina Addington, a English refugee he cared for during his service in the navy.

In 1992, Cunard reestablished the Cunard Line, to help ensure travel and trade as air travel was rendered almost obsolete following Doomsday.

He was given the Queen Elizabeth 2, the last known surviving Cunard liner from the government of Northumbria as a gift for his services. The Queen Elizabeth 2 would serve as a cruise ship from Dublin to Reykjavík. The ship would later resume service as an ocean liner following the establishment of diplomatic ties with Canada in 1992.

Wanting to expand the Cunard fleet as well as honour the history of both the Ocean Liners and the Cunard Line, Robert Cunard ordered the construction of three ship replicas. Each vessel would be a replica of three notable Cunard Liners from the Edwardian era, the RMS Aquitania, the RMS Mauretania, and the RMS Olympic (originally from the White Star Line but became a Cunarder following the merge of Cunard and White Star).

During 1995, Robert Cunard and a group of researchers were able to find surviving blueprints and photographs which satisified his desire to rebuild these three ships. Construction first began on the MS Aquitania II.

Career
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