RMS Campania

RMS Campania was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan, Scotland, launched on 8 September 1892 as sister ship to RMS Lucania, and on entering service in 1893 she was the largest and fastest passenger liner afloat, crossing the Atlantic in under six days and winning the Blue Riband on only her second voyage. In 1905 Campania became the first liner fitted with a permanent radio connection to coastal stations worldwide, and she served Cunard as a passenger liner for roughly 14 years before being converted for military use as HMS Campania during the First World War. She sank on 5 November 1918 after colliding with the battlecruiser HMS Glorious in the Firth of Forth and was later demolished as a hazard to navigation.