RMS Caronia (1947)

RMS Caronia was a Cunard liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and launched on 30 October 1947 by Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. She began her maiden voyage on 4 January 1949 as one of the first dual-purpose ships, designed both for two-class crossings between Southampton and New York and for all first-class cruising, and her hull of four shades of cruising green earned her the nickname Green Goddess. She was the largest passenger ship built in Scotland after the Second World War until Queen Elizabeth 2, left Cunard service in 1967, was briefly Caribia, and was sold for scrap in 1974, breaking into three sections on the breakwater outside Apra Harbor in Guam while under tow to Taiwan.