RMS Parthia

RMS Parthia was a transatlantic passenger and cargo liner of the Cunard Line, the second of two all first class ships of that kind and the sister of RMS Media. The pair were first planned as cargo ships for Brocklebank Line, a Cunard subsidiary, and were completed as passenger cargo ships that ran from Liverpool to New York from 1948 until 1961. Parthia carried 251 first class passengers on four passenger decks and became known for informal comfort, though she and Media proved poor sea boats; Denny-Brown stabilisers were fitted to Media in 1952 and to Parthia in 1954, the first transatlantic liners to receive them. Jet airliners cut into the Atlantic trade, and she was withdrawn in October 1961 and bought by the P&O group for 705,000 pounds. She then sailed the London to Auckland route for the New Zealand Shipping Company as Remuera, was converted for cruising as Aramac in 1964, and was sold for scrap in 1969, reaching Kaohsiung in November 1969 and being fully broken up by the end of 1970.