Based from Avonmouth, Curnow Shipping replaced the Union-Castle Line mailship service in 1977, using the RMS St Helena, a coastal passenger and cargo vessel that had been used between Vancouver and Alaska.

The RMS St Helena was requisitioned in 1982 by the Ministry of Defence to help in support of the Falklands Conflict, and sailed south with the entire crew volunteering for duty.

The Prince Andrew launched the replacement RMS St Helena in 1989 at Aberdeen.

The RMS Saint Helena used to connect the main island to St Helena and South Africa once each year during its January voyage, but has only done so twice in the last few years, namely 2006 and 2011.

There is no direct service to Ascension Island and the United Kingdom, without flying from Cape Town to London or travelling on the RMS St Helena from Cape Town to St Helena.

The March voyage of the RMS St Helena goes to Ascension and Portland from St Helena.

The Russian Musical Society ( RMS ) and the musical conservatories in St. Petersburg and Moscow were all established at this time.

However the RMS founded Russia's first Conservatories in St Petersburg and in Moscow: the former trained the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( 1840 – 93 ), best known for ballets like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.

The Captain of the RMS Titanic, Edward Smith, married Sarah Eleanor Pennington on 13 January 1887 at St. Oswald's Church.

It is named for The St. Regis Hotel in New York, which was built in 1904 in Manhattan at 5th Avenue and 55th Street by John Jacob Astor IV, who also founded the Astoria Hotel ( which later became the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ) and who died in 1912 on the RMS Titanic.

The RMS St Helena is a cargo and passenger ship that serves the British overseas territory of Saint Helena.

* May 29-Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence ; 1, 024 lives lost.

In Cienfuegos he learned from a newspaper that Mason and Slidell were scheduled to leave Havana on November 7 in the British mail packet RMS Trent, bound first for St. Thomas and then England.

* RMS St Helena ( 1989 ), a British Royal Mail Ship

The " Three Simple Stories " portray a survivor from the RMS Titanic, the Biblical story of Jonah and the whale, and the Jewish refugees on board the MS St. Louis in 1939, who were prevented from landing in the United States and other countries.

* In 1914 RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River.

Transferring from Ascension to Saint Helena takes two days on the RMS Saint Helena.

He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998.

His technical assignments included: scientific equipment operator for high altitude research on the WB-57F aircraft ( 1980 – 1981 ); astronaut medical support for the first four Shuttle missions ( 1980 – 1982 ); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) and Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) procedures and development, including thermal vacuum testing of the suit ( 1981 – 1984 ); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) procedures and development ( 1982 – 1983 ); astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ) development ( 1983 ); support crewman for STS-8 ; CAPCOM for STS-8 and STS-9 ; Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) hardware and software development team ( 1983 ); Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ) development team ( 1983 ); Deputy Director of NASA Government-furnished and Contractor-furnished Equipment ( 1982 – 1983 ); Chief of Astronaut Public Appearances ( 1985 – 1987 ); Head, Astronaut Office Space Station Manned Systems Division, and Health Maintenance Facility ( 1987 – 1989 ); Astronaut Office representative on space crew selection and retention standards for Space Station ( 1989 – 1991 ).

RMS Titanic | Titanic disaster.

File: RMS Queen Mary 2 in san francisco bay. jpg | RMS Queen Mary 2 in San Francisco Bay

April 15: The RMS Titanic | RMS Titanic sinks.

Sinking of the RMS Titanic | Titanic.

May 7: ( WWI ) Germany | German U-boat sinks RMS Lusitania | RMS Lusitania.

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| PLACE OF DEATH = aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

RMS Britannia Class | Britannia of 1840 ( 1150 GRT ), the first Cunard liner built for the transatlantic service.

RMS America Class | Europa of 1848 ( 1850 GRT ).

RMS Etruria | Etruria of 1885 ( 7, 700 GRT )

RMS Campania | Campania of 1893, ( 12, 900 GRT )

Crest of the 1921 Cunard liner RMS Laconia ( 1921 ) | LaconiaNo sooner had Cunard re-established its supremacy than new rivals emerged.

RMS Berengaria | Berengaria of 1913 ( 51, 950 GRT ), originally Hapag's Imperator, was acquired by Cunard in 1921 to join Mauretania and Aquitania in the three-ship express service.

RMS Aquitania | Aquitania of 1914 ( 45, 650 GRT ).

RMS Queen Mary | Queen Mary of 1936 ( 80, 700 GRT ) in retirement at Long Beach, California as a floating museum / hotel ship.

The RMS Caronia | Caronia and RMS Carinthia ( 1956 ) | Carinthia laid up in Southampton.

* 1887 – James Paul Moody, English 6th Officer of the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British steamer, RMS Trent, captured and put into U. S. port custody two Confederate diplomats James M. Mason and John Slidell.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet RMS Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell.

His second-born son, James A. Dunsmuir, Jr., died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

An interesting footnote in the saga of the sinking of the RMS Titanic is that Meyer was awakened, against strict orders, by his personal valet, James Eli Kendall.

Director James Cameron returns to the site of the 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh.